01894cam a2200313 i 4500 264968388 TxAuBib 20160615120000.0 840827|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780300036398 trade paper $21.95 0300036396 trade paper $21.95 TxAuBib rda Solomon, Barbara Miller. In the company of educated women : a history of women and higher education in America / Barbara Miller Solomon. New Haven : Yale University Press, ℗♭1985. xxi, 298 pages, [16] pages of plates : portraits ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-288) and index. 1. A forbidden world -- 2. Boring from within: a beginning in the academies of the republic -- 3. The utility of their educations, 1800-1860 -- 4. The push into higher education -- 5. Who went to college? -- 6. Women and the modernizing of liberal education, 1860-1920 -- 7. Dimensions of the collegiate experience -- 8. After college, what? -- 9. The collegiate education of women: its plural strands, 1920-1940 -- 10. The first modern college women: their expectations in the 1920s and 1930s -- 11. A public debate for college women: 1920-1944 -- 12. The promises of liberal education -- forgotten and fulfilled -- Afterthoughts. 20160615. Women Education (Higher) United States History. Women's colleges United States History. Women college students United States History. Femmes - Enseignement sup©♭rieur - ©œtats-Unis - Histoire. United States Women Higher education, to 1980. History.