Higher Education and the “Women’s Question”:
A Selective Bibliography
General Accounts
Barbara Miller Solomon, In the Company of Educated Women (Yale UP, 1985)
Margaret W. Rossiter, Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940
(Johns Hopkins UP, 1982)
Specific Institutions:
Harvard
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, ed., Yards and Gates: Gender in Harvard and Radcliffe History (Macmillan, 2004)
Columbia and Barnard
Rosalind Rosenberg, Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics (Columbia UP, 2004)
Carolyn G. Heilbrun, When Men Were The Only Models We Had: My Teachers Barzun,
Fadiman, Trilling (University of Pennsylvania UP, 2002)
Cornell
Charlotte Williams Conable, Women at Cornell: The Myth of Equal Education
(Cornell University Press, 1977
MIT
Lotte Bailyn, “Putting Gender on the Table,” in David Kaiser, ed., Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision (MIT Press, 2010), 165-192)
Last updated: December 17, 2013
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