A New Moral Vision : : Gender, Religion, and the Changing Purposes of American Higher Education, 1837-1917 /

A New Moral Vision : : Gender, Religion, and the Changing Purposes of American Higher Education, 1837-1917 / / Andrea L. Turpin.

In A New Moral Vision, Andrea L. Turpin explores how the entrance of women into U.S. colleges and universities shaped changing ideas about the moral and religious purposes of higher education in unexpected ways, and in turn profoundly shaped American culture. In the decades before the Civil War, eva...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Turpin, Andrea L.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:American Institutions and Society
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Engendering Ethical Education
  • Chapter 1. Reorienting Righteousness: Toward a New Narrative of Gender and Religion in American Higher Education
  • Part 1. Women Enter Higher Education, 1837–1875
  • Chapter 2. Ideological Origins of the Women’s College: Catharine Beecher, Mary Lyon, and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
  • Chapter 3. Ideological Origins of Collegiate Coeducation: Oberlin College as a Sending City on a Hill
  • Chapter 4. Separate or “Joint Education of the Sexes”? Religion, Science, and Class in National Debates
  • Part 2. The Rise of Gendered Moral Visions, 1868–1917
  • Chapter 5. The Chief End of Man and of Woman: Princeton and Evelyn
  • Chapter 6. A House Divided? Harvard and Radcliffe
  • Chapter 7. “Not to Be Ministered unto, but to Minister”: Wellesley College
  • Chapter 8. “I Delight in the Truth”: Bryn Mawr College
  • Chapter 9. “Almost without Money and without Price to Every Young Man and Every Young Woman”: The University of Michigan
  • Chapter 10. “Even an Atheist Does Not Desire His Boy to Be Trained a Materialist”: The University of California
  • Part 3. Student Voluntary Religion and Service, 1868–1917
  • Chapter 11. Serving the College and the Nation: YMCAs and YWCAs on Campus
  • Conclusion: Trajectories and Trade-offs
  • Notes
  • Index

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