A Generation of Women

Ellen Condliffe Lagemann

Published by Harvard University Press 1979

A Generation of Women

Education in the Lives of Progressive Reformers

Ellen Condliffe Lagemann

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674493438

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This is a thorough evaluation of the experience shared by a crucial generation of American women, widely known but never fully understood: the progressive social reformers of the early twentieth century. Lagemann portrays five such reformers, Grace Dodge, Maud Nathan, Lillian Wald, Leonora O'Reilly, and Rose Schneiderman, all of New York. Her work breaks new ground with its analysis of the forces that shaped the development of these women, their personalities, their careers, and their consciousness.

Lagemann's concern is education--not in the limited sense of going to college, but education as a lifelong "process of interaction that changes the self." She deals with the combined influences of pedagogy--especially that of parents, vocational mentors, and colleagues--work, and feminism. Lagemann skillfully demonstrates the effects of social, cultural, economic, and intellectual currents on the education of women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The relationships Lagemann shows between education and individual achievement and between education and social change create a new understanding of feminism and progressivism in the early twentieth century.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Grace Hoadley Dodge 1856–1914 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. Maud Nathan 1862–1946 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
3. Lillian D. Wald 1867–1940 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
4. Leonora O’Reilly 1870–1927 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
5. Rose Schneiderman 1882–1972 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
6. The Education of a Generation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
A Note on Method and Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1979
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 207
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
- Other: illustrated
Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; Feminists -- United States -- Biography.; Women -- Education -- United States -- Biography.

eBook

Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674493438

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 1979
ISBN: 9780674493421