Entrée principale:

Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz.

Titre et auteur:

Alma mater : design and experience in the women's colleges from their nineteenth-century beginnings to the 1930s / Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz.

Édition:

2nd ed.

Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachuchusetts Press, ©1993.

Description:

xxviii, 420 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-398) and index.
Pt. 1. Foundings -- 1. Plain, Though Very Neat: Mount Holyoke -- 2. More Lasting Than the Pyramids: Vassar -- 3. That Beauty Which Is Truth: Wellesley -- 4. Acting a Manly Part: The Beginnings of College Life -- 5. To Preserve Her Womanliness: Smith -- 6. Advantages of the So-called "Cottage System" Wellesley, Vassar -- 7. As Unnoticed as the Daughters of Any Cambridge Residents: Radcliffe -- 8. Certain Style of "Quaker Lady" Dress: Bryn Mawr -- 9. Behold They are Women!: Bryn Mawr -- 10. Stately Columned Way: Barnard -- Pt. 2. Experience -- 11. Life: Student Life -- 12. Households of Women: Faculty Life -- Pt. 3. Classic Design -- 13. Necessities Peculiar to Women of Today: Wellesley, Smith, Vassar -- 14. Larger School Room: Mount Holyoke -- 15. Day of Small Things Is Over: Radcliffe, Barnard -- 16. Great Design: Wellesley -- Pt. 4. Post-war Women's College -- 17. In Obedience to a Social Convention: College Life after 1920 -- 18. In the Spirit of Our Times: Vassar, Mount Holyoke -- 19. Training Which a College Can Give in Character and in the Art of Living: 1920s Dormitories -- 20. Without Reference to the Analogy of Colleges for Men: Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, Scripps.

Ressources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0870238698
9780870238697
9780585083667
0585083665

Sujet:

Women's colleges United States History.
Collèges féminins États-Unis Histoire.
Women's colleges.
United States.

Classification/genre:

History.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 88375
Cote: ID:93-B2306
Statut: Disponible