Woloch The Insider

A Life of Virginia C. Gildersleeve
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55544-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Virginia C. Gildersleeve was the most influential dean of Barnard College, which she led from 1911 to 1947. In this biography, historian Nancy Woloch explores Gildersleeve’s complicated career in academia and public life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Woloch, Nancy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Roots: 1877–1911
2. The Insider: 1911 Through World War I
3. Gatekeeping: The 1920s
4. Emergencies: 1930–1947
5. Embattled: After Barnard, 1947–1965
Endnote: “Working from Within”
Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Woloch Nancy:
Nancy Woloch is research scholar in the history department at Barnard College. She is the author of Women and the American Experience (5th ed. 2011), Early American Women: A Documentary History, 1600-1900 (3rd ed., 2013), and Muller v. Oregon: A Brief History with Documents (1996). Her recent book, A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s (Princeton, 2015), won the Philip Taft Labor History Prize (Cornell), the William G. Bowen Prize for the Outstanding book on Labor and Public Policy (Princeton), and Honorary Mention for the David J. Langum Sr. Prize in Legal History/Biography. Her most recent book is Eleanor Roosevelt: In Her Words (Hachette, 2017).Nancy Woloch is a research scholar in the Department of History at Barnard College. Her books include the award-winning A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s (2015) and Women and the American Experience (fifth edition, 2011).