The Insider: A Life of Virginia C. Gildersleeve

by Nancy Woloch

Book Overview

Virginia C. Gildersleeve was the most influential dean of Barnard College, which she led from 1911 to 1947. An organizer of the Seven College Conference, or "Seven Sisters," she defended women's intellectual abilities and the value of the liberal arts. She also amassed a strong set of foreign policy credentials and, at the peak of her prominence in 1945, served as the sole woman member of the U.S. delegation to the drafting of the United Nations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231204256
• ISBN13: 9780231204255
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"