Title The past in the present : women's higher education in the twentieth-century American South / Amy Thompson McCandless

Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (x, 389 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction: The Past in the Present -- 1. The Forgotten Woman: The Higher Education of Southern Women at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- 2. A Lady, a Scholar, and a Citizen: The Impact of Nineteenth-Century Plantation Ideology on the Curricula of Twentieth-Century Southern Colleges -- 3. Maintaining the Spirit and Tone of Robust Manliness: The Opposition to Coeducation at Southern Public Universities -- 4. Peerless Standards of Unsullied Honor: Women's Social Life on the Southern College Campus -- 5. Tomorrow and Yesterday: College Women, Economic Depression, and World War -- 6. The Voices of the Future: Social Protest on the Southern Campus -- 7. A Double Focus: A Century of Women's Higher Education in the South Summary The history of higher education in the 20th-century South, like the history of the region, both mirrors and diverges from the national pattern. Not surprisingly the region's demographic, economic, social, political, and cultural characteristics have accounted for many of the variations between the education of southern women and women in the rest of the nation. Southern students, McCandless finds, have generally been more Protestant, more rural, more conservative, and less affluent than their northern and western counterparts. Southern institutions have been slower to raise matriculation and graduation standards and to revise the classical curriculum. Southern administrators and legislators have opposed coeducation and integration longer and harder than college officials elsewhere. Certain types of institutions, such as all-black colleges, public women's colleges, and separate agricultural colleges, have been more prevalent in the South. Although many of these differences are not gender-specific, all have contributed to the distinctive educational experience of women in this region. Much has been written on the distinctiveness of this region, but virtually nothing has been published on the education of women in the South. By focusing on both black and white women at a wide variety of institutions and drawing on oral interviews and campus publications as well as traditional histories, McCandless is able to construct a more detailed picture of women's collegiate experiences in the 20th-century South than those provided by general studies that rely primarily on materials from the North and Midwest. -- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-371) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Women -- Education (Higher) -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century Women college students -- Southern States -- Conduct of life -- History -- 20th century Universities and colleges -- Southern States -- Sociological aspects -- History -- 20th century EDUCATION -- Higher. Universities and colleges -- Sociological aspects Women college students -- Conduct of life Women -- Education (Higher) Hoger onderwijs. Vrouwen. Southern States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0585263698 9780585263694

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