This article argues that a gap emerged after the Great War between the first deans of women and their students over the meaning of self-government for academic women. Early deans believed from their own undergraduate experience that self-government provided important training for women to perform public roles, and by doing so, to attack the gendered assumption that men alone could have full undergraduate rights. By contrast, women students of the post-war years embraced a different undergraduate identity, one which assumed a greater degree of personal liberty, and their conception of self-government entailed the right to determine and monitor their own rules of conduct. By examining Manitoba, Queen’s, Victoria, Toronto’s University College,...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis examines the history and experience of women stu...
At the end of the First World War, the British government put into operation a Free Passage Scheme f...
Student government for the women of the university has been discussed for many years. This year thos...
In the Name of Democracy: The Work of Women Teachers in Toronto and Vancouver, 1945-1960, examines t...
This thesis is an account of how an academic profession for women evolved in England during the peri...
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, debating political questions in spaces like th...
TIlls thesis investigates the experiences of women students at the University of Oxford during the i...
This dissertation examines the experiences of women studying at six institutions of higher education...
This article challenges historians’ concentration on the self in the interwar years with relation to...
Women's organisations in Victoria during the Great War were subject to serious tensions that op...
This article uncovers the important participation by women in adult education between 1920 and 1945 ...
The article discusses contributions towards female higher education made by a group of women whose v...
This dissertation argues for the central role that higher education played in the making and remakin...
History paints a bleak picture of Ontario women's lack of electoral success after 1919, the year wom...
This article explores the first British university-associated women's colleges at the turn of the ni...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis examines the history and experience of women stu...
At the end of the First World War, the British government put into operation a Free Passage Scheme f...
Student government for the women of the university has been discussed for many years. This year thos...
In the Name of Democracy: The Work of Women Teachers in Toronto and Vancouver, 1945-1960, examines t...
This thesis is an account of how an academic profession for women evolved in England during the peri...
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, debating political questions in spaces like th...
TIlls thesis investigates the experiences of women students at the University of Oxford during the i...
This dissertation examines the experiences of women studying at six institutions of higher education...
This article challenges historians’ concentration on the self in the interwar years with relation to...
Women's organisations in Victoria during the Great War were subject to serious tensions that op...
This article uncovers the important participation by women in adult education between 1920 and 1945 ...
The article discusses contributions towards female higher education made by a group of women whose v...
This dissertation argues for the central role that higher education played in the making and remakin...
History paints a bleak picture of Ontario women's lack of electoral success after 1919, the year wom...
This article explores the first British university-associated women's colleges at the turn of the ni...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis examines the history and experience of women stu...
At the end of the First World War, the British government put into operation a Free Passage Scheme f...
Student government for the women of the university has been discussed for many years. This year thos...