Foreword
Introduction
Joyce Antler and Sari Knopp Biklen
Part I: The Educated Woman: Challenges and Visions
1. Educating Women Students for the Future
Nannerl O. Keohane
2. The Contradiction of the Educated Woman
Jane Roland Martin
Part II: Mothers, Teachers, Children, and Change
3. "A Vocation from on High": Kindergartning as an Occupation for American Women
Barbara Beatty
4. Women Educating Women: The Child Study Association as Women's Culture
Roberta Wollons
5. Black Women's Education in the South: The Dual Burdens of Sex and Race
Elizabeth L. Ihle
Part III: Informal Contexts of Women's Education
6. Losing Birth: The Erosion of Women's Control Over and Knowledge About Birth, 1650-1900
Janet Carlisle Bogdan
7. Women Journalist and the Women's Page of the Jewish Daily Forward: A Case Study of Informal Education for Immigrant Woman
Maxine Schwartz Seller
8. Taking Our Maternal Bodies Back: Our Bodies, Ourselves and the Boston Women's Health Book Collective
Robbie Pfeufer Kahn
Part IV: Patterns of Women's Lives After College
9. Education, Work, Family, and Public Commitment in the Lives of Radcliffe Alumnae, 1883-1928
Barbara Miller Solomon, with Patricia M. Nolan
10. The Impact of Higher Education upon Career and Family Choices: Simmons College Alumnae, 1906-1926
Kathleen Dunn
11. Race and College Differences in Life Patterns of Educated Women, 1934-1982
Janet Z. Giele and Mary Gilfus
Part V. Feminist Teaching in Theory and Practice
12. Valuing Diversity: Teaching about Sexual Preference in a Radical/Conserving Curriculum
Laurie Crumpacker and Eleanor M. Vander Haegen
13. You've Got to Stay There and Fight: Sex Equity, Schooling, and Work
Kathleen Weiler
Part VI: Gender, Professionalism, and Social Change
14. Weeding Women Out of "Woman's True Profession": The Effects of the Reforms on Teaching and Teachers
Sara Freedman
15. Black Women, Interpersonal Support, and Institutional Change
Diane S. Pollard
16. Visions and Competencies: An Educational Agenda for Exploring Ethical and Intellectual Dimensions of Decision-Making and Conflict Negotiation
Nona P. Lyons
17. Shaping the Change: The Need for a New Culture in Higher Education
Margaret A. McKenna
Notes
Contributors
Index