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Under The Dome - September 1991, Mckissick Museum--University Of South Carolina

Under the Dome, McKissick Museum Newsletter

Contents:

Cover.....p. 1
British Watercolors from the West Foundation.....p. 2
Building It Right at the South Carolina State Fair .....p. 2
A Class Act: Secrets of Naming and Sorting.....p. 3
Robert Courtright: Masks and Collages.....p. 3
A Reason to Celebrate.....p. 4
Women Between the Wars.....p. 4
Teacher Workshop a Success!.....p. 4
Fall - a Season of Adventure.....p. 5
The Name Game.....p. 5
Champagne and Chocolate!.....p. 6
Traditional Music at State Fair.....p. 8
McKissick Takes On A New Look!.....p. 9
Initiatives Ending.....p. 9
The Year to Donate!.....p. 9
Revelry in Richmond.....p. 10
Keeping Time in Historic Winnsboro.....p. 10
Behind the Scenes …

Widows, Education And Social Change In Twentieth Century Banaras, Nita Kumar

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

In the first half of this century, some one dozen women in Banaras played key rotes in channelling the educational movement into new directions, expanding its agenda to include girls, especially poor girls. These women stand out as pioneering in that they founded schools, dynamic in the way they administered and expanded them, and radical in the vision they had for their students. What makes the case of these women particularly interesting is that they were mostly widows. They rejected the familiar stereotypes for widows through their activism, but in subtle ways that retained for them the respect of society …