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Table of Contents Introduction: Women, Volunteerism, and Education Christine Woyshner and Anne Meis Knupfer 1 Part I. Advancing Higher Education and Professional Work for Women 1. Extending College Education to Southern Women: The Southern Association of College Women ???????????? Joan Marie Johnson. 26 2. ?Forwarding Our Great Purpose of Research in Education?: Women as Researchers and Research on Women, 1920-1960?????Laurie Moses Hine 59 3. Cold War Women: Engineering Education, National Defense, and the Society of Women Engineers?????????????Laura Puaca 88 Part II. Expanding Women?s Influence in Politics and Social Reform Institutions 4. The National College Equal Suffrage League??.Jana Nidiffer 124 5. Latter-Day Knights: College Women, Social Settlements, and Social Class in the Progressive-Era United States????????Emily Mieras 155 6. ?The Worker Must Have Bread, But She Must Have Roses Too?: The Education Programs of the Woman?s Trade Union League, 1908-1926?Liz Rohan 187 Part III. ?Uplifting the Race? 7. The Student YWCA: Intersections of Gender, Race and Religion, 1915- 1925.??????????????????..Sharlene Voogd Cochrane 220 8. ?I Think I?d Like to Have the Experience of Meeting a Negro?: Elite White Women Raise Funds for Black Colleges ?.???Marybeth Gasman 253 9. Linked Together in Service: Education and Philanthropy among the Black Elite, 1946-1960?????Kijua Sanders-McMurtry and Nia Woods Haydel 278 Part IV. Schooling Children 10. ?Politics are Quite Perplexing:? Bessie Locke and the National Kindergarten Association Campaign, 1909-1960.????????Barbara Beatty 303 11. ?We Are From The City, and We Are Here to Educate You?: The Georgia Federation of Women?s Clubs and Tallulah Falls School??Andra Knecht 334 12. The Suburban PTA and the Good Life.???????Claudia Keenan 365 Contributors 393
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Women's institutes -- United States -- History.
Women in education -- United States -- History.