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• 37 Words

  Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination

  Boschert, Sherry,

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  Title IX isn't just about sports. “Readers will finish this book with a clearer understanding of Title IX’s impact, its shortcomings, and the continued threats faced by female students as they seek access to educational opportunities.”…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Exceptions

  Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science

  Zernike, Kate,

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  Hailed as "excellent and infuriating" by the New York Times, The Exceptions profiles an MIT scientist who spearheaded a campaign of sixteen faculty to influence the institution to address inequities in pay and resources for female…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Speechifying

  the Words and Legacy of Johnnetta Betsch Cole

  Cole, Johnnetta B.,

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  This recent publication is a collection of speeches delivered by the prominent anthropologist and HBCU president who also has served as director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art and chair and president of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When Will the Joy Come?

  Black Women in the Ivory Tower

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  "Readable and engaging, When Will the Joy Come? makes a significant contribution to the intersecting fields of women’s studies, African American studies, and higher education administration.”—Shanna Greene Benjamin, author of Half in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Women at Indiana University

  150 Years of Experiences and Contributions

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  Commemorating the first 150 years of coeducation at Indiana's flagship state university, this collection includes sixteen essays from and about female students, faculty, administrative staff and supporters.

• Divided Paths, Common Ground

  the Story of Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis, Pioneering Purdue Women Who Introduced Science Into the Home

  Klink, Angie, 1959-

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  The origins of home economics and home extension at Purdue University are described in this historic profile of two women who were early 20th century leaders in rural women's education.

• West Point Women of Indiana

  Stories of Determination, Leadership, and Service

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  Five women from Indiana offer their perspectives on the process of applying for and training at the academy, as well as their post-graduate service. The publication is offered as historical record as well as for applicant and parent…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mary McLeod Bethune

  Champion for Education

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  This half-hour video profiles this early 20th century education leader. From opening her own college (which has evolved into Bethune-Cookman University), to advising President Franklin Roosevelt, Mary McLeod Bethune was committed to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Yale Needs Women

  How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of An Ivy League Giant

  Perkins, Anne Gardiner,

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  "This smart, lively first book by Perkins, a higher education scholar and Yale graduate, challenges a "sanitized tale of equity instantly achieved" when the elite university, after 268 years, admitted female undergraduates in 1969...…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave

  Black Women's Studies

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  The book is considered the first comprehensive collection of Black feminist scholarship.

• In the Company of Educated Women

  a History of Women and Higher Education in America

  Solomon, Barbara M., 1919-

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  Historical reference covering perspectives on the education of women from colonial times until the late 20th century.

• The Politics of Women's Studies

  Testimony From Thirty Founding Mothers

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  “In this anthology of short, first-person accounts, we hear the voices of feminists exhilarated by the opportunities and challenges of creating women’s studies programs in American colleges and universities, nurtured by the women’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Academic Motherhood

  How Faculty Manage Work and Family

  Ward, Kelly (Kelly Anne)

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  With a longitudinal study based on over 100 faculty who are also mothers, across a variety of academic settings, the authors aim to identify and share policy solutions at the personal and institutional levels.

• Pioneers of Women's Education in the United States

  Emma Willard, Catherine Beecher, Mary Lyon

  Goodsell, Willystine, 1870-1962

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  This volume summarizes the work of three notable New England advocates in the early 19th century who laid groundwork for higher education of women in the US.

• The Story of My Life

  Keller, Helen, 1880-1968

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  The latter part of this autobiography specifically recounts Keller's preparation for college and experiences at Radcliffe, notable achievements in her remarkable life story.

• Up Home

  One Girl's Journey

  Simmons, Ruth, 1945-

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  "Simmons’s evocative account of her remarkable trajectory from Jim Crow Texas, where she was the youngest of twelve children in a sharecropping family, to the presidencies of Smith College and Brown University shines with tenderness and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Reminiscences of School Life and Hints on Teaching

  Coppin, Fanny Jackson

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  The treatise of a woman born into slavery, who became of the earliest Oberlin College graduates and served most of her life as a teacher, administrator (of what is now Coppin State University), and activist.

• American Indian Studies

  Native PhD Graduates Gift Their Stories

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  (Not just women) graduates of the University of Arizona's first-of-its-kind doctoral program in American Indian Studies share their academic and personal stories.

• Balancing Two Worlds

  Asian American College Students Tell Their Life Stories

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  This anthology of fourteen autobiographical essays by female and male college students is sorted into the sub-categories: generating new identities; challenging the "model minority" label; origins and ethnicities; what are you?; and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Trans People in Higher Education

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  This anthology of narratives as well as newer research in the field of trans studies is edited by the director of the UMass Amherst Stonewall Center.