Research Catalog

Title

No distinction of sex? : women in British universities, 1870-1939 / Carol Dyhouse.

Author

Dyhouse, Carol, 1948-

Publication

London : UCL Press, 1995.

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Details

Description

xii, 288 pages; 23 cm

Series Statement

Women's history

Uniform Title

Women's history

Subject

• Freie Universität Berlin Allgemeiner Studentenausschuß Kulturreferat
• 1800-1999
• Women > Education (Higher) > History > Great Britain > 19th century
• Women > Education (Higher) > History > Great Britain > 20th century
• Women college students > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Women college students > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Women college teachers > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Women college teachers > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Women > history
• Education, Graduate > history
• Students > history
• Teaching > history
• Women > education
• Women college students
• Women college teachers
• Women > Education (Higher)
• Frau
• Universität
• Universiteiten
• Studenten
• Leerkrachten
• Vrouwen
• Dones > Gran Bretanya > Història
• Ensenyament universitari
• Universitats > Gran Bretanya > Història
• Professeurs (enseignement supérieur) > Grande-Bretagne
• Femmes > Enseignement supérieur > Grande-Bretagne
• Femmes > Enseignement supérieur > Histoire universelle > Grande-Bretagne > 20e siècle
• Étudiantes > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire universelle > 19e siècle
• Étudiantes > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire universelle > 20e siècle
• Femmes professeurs (enseignement supérieur) > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire universelle > 19e siècle
• Femmes professeurs (enseignement supérieur) > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire universelle > 20e siècle
• Geschichte 1870-1939
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien
• Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 1870-1914
• Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 1900-1945

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-278) and index.

Contents

• 1. Patterns of provision: access and accommodation. Admitting women. The Ladies' Educational Associations. Women students: numbers and social composition. Scholarships, grants and costs. Making space for women. Benefactions and the shape of provision -- 2. Patterns of supervision: lady superintendents and tutors to women students. Chaperonage and control: professors' wives and "lady tutors" Delicate issues and dangerous women: Annie Besant and University College London. Tutors to women students: the politics of appointment, status and role. Protecting women's interests? The question of the need for separate provision. Status uncertainties and troubled careers: the experience of women tutors -- 3. Residence: halls and hostels for women students. The ideal of college life. The practicalities of provision. Lady superintendents, principals and wardens. "Sweet girl graduates" and the serpent: the Bangor controversy of 1892. Lady wardens: trials and tribulations. A sense of community: Margery Fry in Birmingham. Families, boarding houses or colleges? Models of community life. Students or schoolgirls? A woman's space? Students, domestic staff and the privileges of hall life -- 4. Women academics. The first appointments. The numbers of women teachers. Obstacles: research and sponsorship. Obstacles: femininity and "worldly knowledge" Obstacles: salaries and pensions. Obstacles: working conditions. The nature of discrimination. Difficult careers: the case of Edith Morley. Obstacles: careers versus marriage. Difficult careers: the case of Margaret Miller. Networks of support. The British Federation of University Women -- 5. Student life. "Penetration" and "acceptance": thinking about change. Segregation versus assimilation: interpreting the evidence. Protecting women from men, or men from women? Masculinity redefined: male ideals of fellowship and performance. Boat-racing, women.
• Speaking out: women's debating societies. Gender and misrule: women and the college "rag" Conviviality or misogyny? Women's suffrage. Women students and the community: settlements and social work. Feminine subcultures and feminism -- Appendix I: Numbers of students, 1900-1901 and 1910-11 -- Appendix II: Numbers of students, 1920-21 and 1934-5 -- Appendix III: Students and residence, 1937-8 -- Appendix IV: The duties of the Warden of University Hall.

ISBN

• 1857284585
• 9781857284584
• 1857284593
• 9781857284591

LCCN

95000875

OCLC

• ocm31936358
• 31936358
• SCSB-8921739

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library