Intimate communities : representation and social transformation in women's college fiction, 1895-1910

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Intimate communities : representation and social transformation in women's college fiction, 1895-1910

Sherrie A. Inness

Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1995

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-192) and index

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ISBN 9780879726836

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The many popular representations of student life at women s colleges produced in the United States during the Progressive Era are examined. The college woman was described and defined in a period when women s higher education was still socially suspect. While other scholars have argued that the Progressive Era was the golden age for women s single-sex education, pointing to the many positive depictions of the women s college student, Inness suggests that these representations actually helped to perpetuate the status quo and did little to advance women s social rights. "
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: pbk ISBN 9780879726843

Description

The many popular representations of student life at women's colleges produced in the United States during the Progressive Era are examined. The college woman was described and defined in a period when women's higher education was still socially suspect. While other scholars have argued that the Progressive Era was the "golden age" for women's single-sex education, pointing to the many positive depictions of the women's college student, Inness suggests that these representations actually helped to perpetuate the status quo and did little to advance women's social rights.

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