A new moral vision gender, religion, and the changing purposes of American higher education, 1837-1917 / [electronic resource] :
Andrea L. Turpin.
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
- 1 online resource (pages cm.)
- American institutions and society .
- UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : engendering ethical education -- Reorienting righteousness : toward a new narrative of gender and religion in American higher education -- Ideological origins of the women's college : Catharine Beecher, Mary Lyon, and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary -- Ideological origins of collegiate coeducation : Oberlin College as a sending city on a hill -- Separate or joint education of the sexes? : religion, science, and class in national debates -- The chief end of man and of woman : Princeton and Evelyn -- A house divided? : Harvard and Radcliffe -- Not to be ministered unto, but to minister : Wellesley College -- I delight in the truth : Bryn Mawr College -- Almost without money and without price to every young man and every young woman : the University of Michigan -- Even an atheist does not desire his boy to be trained a materialist : the University of California -- Serving the college and the nation : YMCAs and YWCAs on campus -- Conclusion : trajectories and tradeoffs.
9781501706325 1501706322
Universities and colleges--Religion.--United States Education, Higher--Moral and ethical aspects--History--United States--20th century. Education, Higher--Moral and ethical aspects--History--United States--19th century. Women in higher education--History--United States--20th century. Women in higher education--History--United States--19th century.