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Book

Women at Michigan : the "dangerous experiment," 1870s to the present

Call Number

  • H 378.774 B729.1 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1999.

Physical Description

xxxii, 138 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

"Women at Michigan traces the history and changing status of women students, faculty, and staff at the University of Michigan from the reluctant admission of the first women students in the 1870s (which one administrator referred to as the "dangerous experiment") to the present. The challenges that women at Michigan and other universities faced in an earlier era - including dress codes, curfews, and off-limits-to-women groups like the Michigan Marching Band - may surprise those who observe the relative freedom and status of women on college campuses today. Women at Michigan describes the remarkable efforts of many generations of women to gain equal representation and professional recognition at the university."--Jacket.

Contents

  • Pursuing the cause
  • A most hopeful experiment
  • Change and redefinition
  • Women, war, and crisis
  • From the age of conformity to the stirrings of dissent
  • Change and resistance
  • Victory or accommodation.

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