Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965
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This history explores the nature of postwar advocacy for women's higher education, acknowledging its unique relationship to the expectations of the era and recognizing its particular type of adaptive activism. By 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.
1Postwar gender expectations and realities112Educators consider the postwar college woman433Research : the American Council on Education's Commission on the Education of Women874Practice : advocacy in women's professional organizations1125Policy : the President's Commission on the Status of Women1416Women's continuing education as an institutional response1797The contributions and limitations of women's continuing education210
