Description
Book SynopsisBy redefining our understanding of activism and assessing women's efforts within the context of their milieu, this innovative work reclaims an era often denigrated for its lack of attention to women.
Trade ReviewGroundbreaking synthesis... Highly recommended. Choice 2006 This is an interesting book and Eisenmann skillfully demonstrates the connections between governmental policy, social ideologies, and higher education. -- Jana Nidiffer Review of Higher Education 2006 Historians of education and gender will find the book useful. -- Amy Thompson McCandless History: Reviews of New Books 2006 Eisenmann gives the postwar activists the attention they merit and insightfully conveys their value in women's educational history. -- Nancy Woloch Journal of American History 2006 For social, labor, and women's historians interested in the middle twentieth century, the book is a critically important one. -- Marry Ann Dzuback Journal of Social History 2007 Eisenmann also makes an important contribution to our understanding of postwar American society. -- Susan Ware Journal of Cold War Studies 2008
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Ideologies
1. Postwar Gender Expectations and Realities
2. Educators Consider the Postwar College Woman
Part II: Explorations
3. Research: The American Council on Education's Commission on the Education of Women
4. Practice: Advocacy in Women's Professional Organizations
5. Policy: The President's Commission on the Status of Women
Part III: Responses
6. Women's Continuing Education as an Institutional Response
7. The Contributions and Limitations of Women's Continuing Education
Conclusion
Notes
Index
