A Generation of Women (Hardcover, Reprint 2014 ed.)

This is a thorough evaluation of the experience shared by a crucial generation of American women, widely known but never fully understood: the progressive social reformers of the early twentieth century. Lagemann portrays five such reformers, Grace Dodge, Maud Nathan, Lillian Wald, Leonora O'Reilly, and Rose Schneiderman, all of New York. Her work breaks new ground with its analysis of the forces that shaped the development of these women, their personalities, their careers, and their consciousness. Lagemann's concern is education--not in the limited sense of going to college, but education as a lifelong process of interaction that changes the self. She deals with the combined influences of pedagogy--especially that of parents, vocational mentors, and colleagues--work, and feminism. Lagemann skillfully demonstrates the effects of social, cultural, economic, and intellectual currents on the education of women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The relationships Lagemann shows between education and individual achievement and between education and social change create a new understanding of feminism and progressivism in the early twentieth century.

General

Imprint:	Harvard University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2014
First published:	October 2013
Authors:	Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
Pages:	215
Edition:	Reprint 2014 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-674-49342-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-674-49342-7
Barcode:	9780674493421

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