Women in Higher Education: An Encyclopedia

by Ana Martinez Aleman and Kristen A. Renn

The only comprehensive encyclopedia on the subject of women in higher education.

America's first wave of feminists--Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and others--included expanded opportunities for higher education in their Declaration of Sentiments at the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in l848. By then, the first American institutions to educate women had been founded, among them, Mt. Holyoke Seminary,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576076148
• ISBN13: 9781576076149
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Length: 662 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.4" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher