Bound By a Mighty Vow : : Sisterhood and Women's Fraternities, 1870-1920 / / Diana B. Turk.
Sororities are often thought of as exclusive clubs for socially inclined college students, but Bound by a Mighty Vow, a history of the women's Greek system, demonstrates that these organizations have always served more serious purposes. Diana Turk explores the founding and development of the ea...
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Turk, Diana B., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Bound By a Mighty Vow : Sisterhood and Women's Fraternities, 1870-1920 / Diana B. Turk. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2004] ©2004 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Fraternities’ Past and Historians’ Present -- 1 Of Serious Mind and Purpose: The First Generation of Fraternity Women -- 2 The Most Socially Eligible: “At Home” with the Second Generation of Fraternity Women -- 3 A National Society to Rank with the First in America: Expansion and Exclusion in the Women’s Greek System -- 4 In Search of Unity: Fostering “High Ideals” in the Face of Antifraternity Sentiment, 1910–1920 -- 5 Once a Sister, Always a Sister: Fraternity Membership in the Postcollege Years -- 6 Bound by a Mighty Vow: The Costs and Benefits of Fraternity Membership, 1870–1920 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Sororities are often thought of as exclusive clubs for socially inclined college students, but Bound by a Mighty Vow, a history of the women's Greek system, demonstrates that these organizations have always served more serious purposes. Diana Turk explores the founding and development of the earliest sororities (then called women's fraternities) and explains how these groups served as support networks to help the first female collegians succeed in the hostile world of nineteenth century higher education. Turk goes on to look at how and in what ways sororities changed over time. While the first generation focused primarily on schoolwork, later Greek sisters used their fraternity connections to ensure social status, gain access to jobs and job training, and secure financial and emotional support as they negotiated life in turn-of-the-century America. The costs they paid were conformity to certain tightly prescribed beliefs of how "ideal" fraternity women should act and what "ideal" fraternity women should do. Drawing on primary source documents written and preserved by the fraternity women themselves, as well as on oral history interviews conducted with fraternity officers and alumnae members, Bound by a Mighty Vow uncovers the intricate history of these early women's networks and makes a bold statement about the ties that have bound millions of American women to one another in the name of sisterhood. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Greek letter societies History United States United States. Greek letter societies United States History. HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110706444 print 9780814782750 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814784303.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814784303 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814784303/original |
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