University women : a history of women and higher education in Canada /
"Bessie Scott, nearing the end of her first year at university in the spring of 1890, recorded in her diary: "Wore my gown for first time! It didn't seem at all strange to do so." Often deemed a cumbersome tradition by men, the cap and gown were dearly prized by women as an outwa...
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Carleton library series ;
257. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Educated women: Schooling the daughters of the new dominion
- 2. Sex and race in education: The campaign for coeducation
- 3. Separate and different: Women's colleges and self-support
- 4. Becoming undergraduates: Rights and responsibilities of college life
- 5. An insurrection of women: Deans, suffrage, and self-government
- 6. Furies and flappers: Toward academic separation
- Conclusion.
