History of Women in the United States : Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities. Volume 12, Education

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics. Contents Series Preface Introduction Education Equally Their Due: The Education of the Planter Daughter in the Early Republic Mask of Oppression: The Female Seminary Movement in the United States What, Then, is the American: This New Woman? The Ever Widening Circle: The Diffusion of Feminist Values from the Troy Female Seminary, 1822–1872 “Embodied Selves”: The Rise and Development of Concern for Physical Education, Active Games and Recreation for American Women, 1776–1865 Coeducation of the Sexes at Oberlin College: A Study of Social Ideas in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America The Impact of the “Cult of True Womanhood” on the Education of Black Women Self-Help Programs As Educative Activities of Black Women in the South, 1895–1925: Focus on Four Key Areas Domestication As Reform: A Study of the Socialization of Wayward Girls, 1856–1905 Sex, Science and Education Homeopathy and Sexual Equality: The Controversy over Coeducation at Cincinnati’s Pulte Medical College, 1873–1879 Expansion and Exclusion: A History of Women in American Higher Education Educating Indian Girls at Nonreservation Boarding Schools, 1878–1920 Guest Editorial: The Impact of Black Women in Education: An Historical Overview Young Women and the City: Adolescent Deviance and the Transformation of Educational Policy, 1870–1960 Doctorates for American Women, 1868–1907 Here Was Fellowship: A Social Portrait of Academic Women at Wellesley College, 1895–1920 Women’s Colleges and Domesticity, 1875–1918 “After College, What?”: New Graduates and the Family Claim Opportunity and Fulfillment: Sex, Race, and Class in Health Care Education Black Women and Higher Education: Spelman and Bennett Colleges Revisited It Might Have Been Euthenics: The Lake Placid Conferences and the Home Economics Movement Copyright Information Index Nancy F. Cott, author of "The Grounding of Modern Feminism" (1987), has selected the most significant research contributions on the social, religious and political history of women in the United States, from colonial times to the present. Part of a fully indexed 20-volume collection which gathers together significant research contributions on the social, religious and political history of women in the United States, from colonial times to the 1990s.