In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America

by Barbara Miller Solomon

Book Overview

Traces the history of the struggle of women to achieve equality in American colleges from Colonial times to the present. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300036396
• ISBN13: 9780300036398
• Release Date: September 1986
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Informative

I bought this book for a class I was taking. It provided a very complete information about the topic. Although I consider that the information was complete I still think that it needed to talk more about higher education for African-American women. The book focused a lot only on white women.

Women in Higher Education

An excellent supplement to the higher education track. It provides a historical timeline of the contributions of women to the field of higher education. A must read for anyone in academia.

Excellent

I used the book as an optional text in a course on the history of higher education. It adds a dimension to the topic that is missed by most text books-yes there were women involved in the history of higher education!!! While most texts mention women, they tend to highlight the unique rather than the norm. This book does an excellent job of explaining how the average American woman faired in higher education beginning in the early 19th century.

A Book that every woman should read

This book documents the history of women in education. It is a wonderful resource for those of us who did not run across the obstacles that our mothers and our grandmothers did when they pursued education. I feel that this should be a required text for all women in higher education instituitons.