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Public medievalists, racism, and suffrage in the American women's college

Title
Public medievalists, racism, and suffrage in the American women's college / Mary Dockray-Miller.
Author
Dockray-Miller, Mary, 1965-
Publication
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

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Description
xii, 153 pages : illustrations, map; 22 cm
Summary
"This study, part of growing interest in the study of 19th-century medievalism and Anglo-Saxonism, closely examines the intersections of race, class, and gender in the teaching of Anglo-Saxon in the American women's colleges before World War I, interrogating the ways that the positioning of Anglo-Saxon as the historical core of the collegiate English curriculum also silently perpetuated mythologies about Manifest Destiny, male superiority, and the primacy of northern European ancestry in United States culture at large. Analysis of college curricula and biographies of female professors demonstrates the ways that women used Anglo-Saxon as a means to professional opportunity and political expression, especially in the suffrage movement, even as that legitimacy and respectability was freighted with largely unarticulated assumptions of racist and sexist privilege."--Back cover.
Series Statement
  • New Middle Ages
  • Palgrave pivot
Uniform Title
  • Palgrave pivot.
  • New Middle Ages.
Subject
  • Women > Education (Higher) > History > United States > 20th century
  • College teaching > United States > History > 20th century
  • Medievalism > United States > History > 20th century
  • Medievalism > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States
  • Civilization, Anglo-Saxon > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States
  • Feminism and higher education > United States > History > 20th century
  • Women > Suffrage > History > United States > 20th century
  • Racism > United States > History > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-147) and index.
Call Number
JFD 18-1633
ISBN
  • 3319697056
  • 9783319697055
LCCN
2017956205
OCLC
1015856522
Author
Dockray-Miller, Mary, 1965- author.
Title
Public medievalists, racism, and suffrage in the American women's college / Mary Dockray-Miller.
Publisher
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
New Middle Ages
Palgrave pivot
Palgrave pivot.
New Middle Ages.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-147) and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 18-1633
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