Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think about Sex and Politics

by Rosalind Rosenberg

Book Overview

This remarkable story begins in the years following the Civil War, when reformers--emboldened by the egalitarian rhetoric of the post-Civil War era--pressed New York City's oldest institution of higher learning to admit women in the 1870s. Their effort failed, but within twenty years Barnard College was founded, creating a refuge for women scholars at Columbia, as well as an academic beachhead "from which women would make incursions into the larger...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231126441
• ISBN13: 9780231126441
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"