Our Rightful Place (eBook)
262 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-7939-1 (ISBN)
In 1880, forty-three women walked into the president's office at the University of Kentucky (UK) and signed the student register, becoming the first female students at a public college in the commonwealth. But gaining admittance was only the beginning. For the next sixty-five years -- encompassing two world wars, an economic depression, and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment -- generations of women at UK claimed and reclaimed their right to an equitable university experience. Their work remains unfinished.
Drawing on yearbooks, photographs, and other private collections, Our Rightful Place: A History of Women at the University of Kentucky, 1880--1945 examines the struggle for gender equity in higher education through the lens of one major institution. In the face of shifting resistance, pioneering women constructed opportunities for themselves. Terry L. Birdwhistell and Deirdre A. Scaggs highlight three women -- Sarah Blanding, Frances Jewell McVey, and Sarah Bennett Holmes -- who fought for access to basic facilities that were denied to UK women for decades, including housing and study spaces. By examining the trials and triumphs of UK's first female undergraduates, faculty, and administrators, this book uncovers the lasting impact women had on higher learning in the early days of coeducation.
lt;P>Terry L. Birdwhistell is senior oral historian and founding director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries. He is former president of the Oral History Association and previously served as Dean of Libraries at UK Libraries. He has contributed to numerous collections, including The Encyclopedia of Louisville and The Kentucky Encyclopedia, and is co-general editor of Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series. His articles have appeared in publications such as Kentucky Law Journal and the Kentucky Review.
Deirdre A. Scaggs is associate dean of the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center. She also serves as director of the Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center. She is author of Women in Lexington and coauthor of The Historic Kentucky Kitchen: Traditional Recipes for Today's Cook.
IntroductionFirst Women and the Will to SucceedFrances Jewell McVey and the Refinement of Student CultureSarah Blanding and the Modern College WomanEconomic Depression and an Uncertain FutureWorld War II and the Illusion of EqualityEpilogue
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.7.2020 |
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Reihe/Serie | Topics in Kentucky History |
Topics in Kentucky History | Topics in Kentucky History |
Zusatzinfo | 79 b&w halftones |
Verlagsort | Lexington |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 150 x 150 mm |
Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I |
Schlagworte | Coeducation • college basketball • College enrollment • Dean • feminisim • Glass Ceiling • Great Depression • Home economics • patterson hall • Perseverance • preseverance • sororities • women's culture • Women's equality • World War I • World War II |
ISBN-10 | 0-8131-7939-4 / 0813179394 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8131-7939-1 / 9780813179391 |
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