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Domestic Arts, Dates, Drugs, And Dress Codes: Scripps College's Early Attitudes Towards Gender, Sexuality, And Women's Education, Kathleen Mchale Jan 2022

Domestic Arts, Dates, Drugs, And Dress Codes: Scripps College's Early Attitudes Towards Gender, Sexuality, And Women's Education, Kathleen Mchale

Scripps Senior Theses

This thesis explores how Scripps College's administration, faculty, and students dealt with expectations of gender roles and sexuality during the first two decades of the college's existence. It looks at the historical development of women's colleges, Scripps' curriculum and aims, architecture, residence life, rules and regulations, and applied these areas to discuss how students and other Scripps community members responded to norms about gender and sexuality.


«Cuida Tu Alma Y Tu Cuerpo Por Dios Y La Falange»: Women’S Education And La Sección Femenina In Franco’S Spain, Madeleine Fontenay May 2021

«Cuida Tu Alma Y Tu Cuerpo Por Dios Y La Falange»: Women’S Education And La Sección Femenina In Franco’S Spain, Madeleine Fontenay

College Honors Program

My thesis exploration is on La Sección Femenina and its diffusion of female cultural guides and shaping of female education in the early francoist period, from 1939 to 1959. The Sección Femenina and its field offices published work in many facets of women's lives to influence and reeducate women or their values and place. The contrast of rhetoric and reality gives insight into the values and upbringings of generations of Spaniards. By setting the female figure as the foundation of their francoist society, the Sección Femenina held immense cultural power. I am approaching the topic from an educational perspective, focusing …


Lessons From The 1800s: Creating The Miss Porter's School Digital Archive, Deborah Smith Jul 2019

Lessons From The 1800s: Creating The Miss Porter's School Digital Archive, Deborah Smith

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

College preparatory (“prep”) schools have their roots in the New England region of the United States; many predate the nation's most illustrious colleges and universities. The archives at these schools contain items of importance to American history in the 1800s. However, few schools have trained archivists managing their physical collections and even fewer have created digital archives to increase access. Founded in 1848, Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut was one of the first independent schools devoted to the education of young women. This article reviews the creation of the Porter's digital archive in 2018 and examines issues specific to …


Three Women, Two Spheres, And A Contract: A Comparative Study Of Mary Astell And Mary Wollstonecraft Through The Lens Of Carole Pateman's "The Sexual Contract", Robyn Burke Dabora May 2017

Three Women, Two Spheres, And A Contract: A Comparative Study Of Mary Astell And Mary Wollstonecraft Through The Lens Of Carole Pateman's "The Sexual Contract", Robyn Burke Dabora

Dissertations, Masters Theses, Capstones, and Culminating Projects

This project examines the writings of Mary Astell (1666-1731) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) regarding women in light of ideas articulated by Carole Pateman (1940- ) in her book, The Sexual Contract (1988). In her work, Pateman critiques the prescriptions for the management of society suggested by classic contract theorists such as Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and John Locke (1632-1704) and cites that their solutions focus solely on men in the public sphere of society. Pateman illuminates the condition of women in the private sphere of the home, and asserts that this realm operates by mechanisms radically different from those of the …


Seekers And Observers: Life Histories Of Three Female Antebellum Historians, Annmarie Valdes Jan 2017

Seekers And Observers: Life Histories Of Three Female Antebellum Historians, Annmarie Valdes

Dissertations

This dissertation provides a history and analysis of the educational experiences and scholarly texts of three female historians. The study employs the combined frameworks of Haraway's €˜situated knowledges' and Life History for examining three female historians who were involved in three integrated aspects of knowledge production: scholar, educator and author. The three case studies examine the lives of Elizabeth Peabody (1804-1894), Caroline Dall (1822-1912), and Mary L. Booth (1831-1889), with an analytical focus on their Antebellum Era, mid-nineteenth-century historical publications. A core contention is that knowledge production by women and, in particular, historical texts produced for schools and public consumption …


The Spinster (2016), Hollins University Jan 2016

The Spinster (2016), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)


Educating The Modern Woman: Girls’ College Preparatory Schools In Virginia, 1900-1930, Eliza Mcgehee May 2015

Educating The Modern Woman: Girls’ College Preparatory Schools In Virginia, 1900-1930, Eliza Mcgehee

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

In the early 1900s, women pursued higher education and employment outside of the home in growing numbers. As women’s educational opportunities expanded, the need for college preparation also increased. This study examines the development of four all-girls’ college preparatory schools in Virginia from 1900 to 1930, focusing on the ways in which notions of gender influenced the creation and execution of the schools’ guiding visions and curricula. It also examines the roles students played in the development of these programs and shows students’ wide range of responses to the purpose and goals of their own education. Through the academic curricula, …


The Invisible Woman And The Silent University, Elizabeth Robinson Cole May 2012

The Invisible Woman And The Silent University, Elizabeth Robinson Cole

Dissertations

Anna Eliot Ticknor (1823 – 1896) founded the first correspondence school in the United States, the Society to Encourage Studies at Home. In the fall of 1873 an educational movement was quietly initiated from her home in Boston, Massachusetts. A politically and socially sophisticated leader, she recognized the need that women felt for continuing education and understood how to offer the opportunity within the parameters afforded women of nineteenth century America. With a carefully chosen group of women and one man, Ticknor built a learning society that extended advanced educational opportunities to all women regardless of financial ability, educational background, …


The Lasting Importance Of Ephemera: What Scrapbooks, Diaries, Newspapers, And Receipts Tell Us About Life At Hollins During The Civil War., Karen Adams Jan 2012

The Lasting Importance Of Ephemera: What Scrapbooks, Diaries, Newspapers, And Receipts Tell Us About Life At Hollins During The Civil War., Karen Adams

Articles about Hollins and Special Collections

The University Archives and Special Collections at Hollins University contain a rich collection of documents, from academic catalogs, newspapers, and diaries to receipts, scrapbooks, and other artifacts. Together they tell a story of life at Hollins during the Civil War.


The Spinster (2012), Hollins University Jan 2012

The Spinster (2012), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)


The Spinster (2011), Hollins University Jan 2011

The Spinster (2011), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)


Educating Women: Schooling And Identity In England And France, 1800-1867 (Book Review), Christopher Bischof Jun 2010

Educating Women: Schooling And Identity In England And France, 1800-1867 (Book Review), Christopher Bischof

History Faculty Publications

Christina de Bellaigue’s Educating Women: Schooling and Identity in England and France, 1800-1867 explores stereotypes about women’s boarding schools on both sides of the English-French Channel. In the process de Bellaigue identifies the basis in reality which many of the most widespread stereotypes had, including: the socially grasping schoolmistress; the schoolmistress as a gentlewoman fallen on hard times; the short-lived nature of many schools; the stress laid on the teaching of “accomplishments”; and the idea that preparing women for their domestic role was the ultimate goal of an education. However, she also simultaneously undermines these stereotypes by supplying nuance and …


The Spinster (2010), Hollins University Jan 2010

The Spinster (2010), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)


The Spinster (2009), Hollins University Jan 2009

The Spinster (2009), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)


The Spinster (2008), Hollins University Jan 2008

The Spinster (2008), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)


The Spinster (2007), Hollins University Jan 2007

The Spinster (2007), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)


The Spinster (2006), Hollins University Jan 2006

The Spinster (2006), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)


The Spinster (2005), Hollins University Jan 2005

The Spinster (2005), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)


The Spinster (2004), Hollins University Jan 2004

The Spinster (2004), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)


The Spinster (2003), Hollins University Jan 2003

The Spinster (2003), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)


The Spinster (2002), Hollins University Jan 2002

The Spinster (2002), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)


The Spinster (2001), Hollins University Jan 2001

The Spinster (2001), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)


The Spinster (2000), Hollins University Jan 2000

The Spinster (2000), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)


The Spinster (1999), Hollins University Jan 1999

The Spinster (1999), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)


The Spinster (1998), Hollins College Jan 1998

The Spinster (1998), Hollins College

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins College (later University)


The Spinster (1997), Hollins College Jan 1997

The Spinster (1997), Hollins College

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins College (later University)


The Spinster (1996), Hollins College Jan 1996

The Spinster (1996), Hollins College

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins College (later University)


The Spinster (1995), Hollins College Jan 1995

The Spinster (1995), Hollins College

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins College (later University)


The Spinster (1994), Hollins College Jan 1994

The Spinster (1994), Hollins College

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins College (later University)


The Spinster (1993), Hollins College Jan 1993

The Spinster (1993), Hollins College

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins College (later University)