Intimate Communities: Representation and Social Transformation in Women's College Fiction, 1895-1910

by Sherrie A. Inness

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879726849
• ISBN13: 9780879726843
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Popular Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.9"