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The Douglass Century - Transformation of the Women's College at Rutgers University (Hardcover)
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The Douglass Century - Transformation of the Women's College at Rutgers University (Hardcover)
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Rutgers University's Douglass Residential College is the only
college for women that is nested within a major research university
in the United States. Although the number of women's colleges has
plummeted from a high of 268 in 1960 to 38 in 2016, Douglass is
flourishing as it approaches its centennial in 2018. To explore its
rich history, Kayo Denda, Mary Hawkesworth, Fernanda H. Perrone
examine the strategic transformation of Douglass over the past
century in relation to continuing debates about women's higher
education. The Douglass Century celebrates the college's longevity
and diversity as distinctive accomplishments, and analyzes the
contributions of Douglass administrators, alumnae, and students to
its survival, while also investigating multiple challenges that
threatened its existence. This book demonstrates how changing
historical circumstances altered the possibilities for women and
the content of higher education, comparing the Jazz Age, American
the Great Depression, the Second World War, the post-war Civil
Rights era, and the resurgence of feminism in the 1970s and 1980s.
Concluding in the present day, the authors highlight the college's
ongoing commitment to Mabel Smith Douglass' founding vision, "to
bring about an intellectual quickening, a cultural broadening in
connection with specific training so that women may go out into the
world fitted...for leadership...in the economic, political, and
intellectual life of this nation." In addition to providing a
comprehensive history of the college, the book brings its subjects
to life with eighty full-color images from the Special Collections
and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
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