No Distinction Of Sex?: Women In British Universities, 1870-1939

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ISBN: 9781857284591 | 1857284593
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Copyright: 12/1/1995

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This study examines women's experiences as teachers and students at British universities between 1870 and 1939 and shows clearly how sexual divisions were deeply etched in university life in Britain before 1939.

Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Patterns of provision: access and accommodation	p. 11
Admitting women	p. 11
The Ladies' Educational Associations	p. 13
Women students: numbers and social composition	p. 17
Scholarships, grants and costs	p. 27
Making space for women	p. 33
Benefactions and the shape of provision	p. 35
Patterns of supervision: lady superintendents and tutors to women students	p. 56
Chaperonage and control: professors' wives and "lady tutors"	p. 56
Delicate issues and dangerous women: Annie Besant and University College London	p. 60
Tutors to women students: the politics of appointment, status and role	p. 62
Protecting women's interests? The question of the need for separate provision	p. 67
Status uncertainties and troubled careers: the experience of women tutors	p. 74
Residence: halls and hostels for women students	p. 91
The ideal of college life	p. 91
The practicalities of provision	p. 95
Lady superintendents, principals and wardens	p. 100
"Sweet girl graduates" and the serpent: the Bangor controversy of 1892	p. 103
Lady wardens: trials and tribulations	p. 105
A sense of community: Margery Fry in Birmingham	p. 108
Families, boarding houses or colleges? Models of community life	p. 111
Students or schoolgirls?	p. 114
A woman's space? Students, domestic staff and the privileges of hall life	p. 121
Women academics	p. 134
The first appointments	p. 134
The numbers of women teachers	p. 137
Obstacles: research and sponsorship	p. 141
Obstacles: femininity and "worldly knowledge"	p. 147
Obstacles: salaries and pensions	p. 148
Obstacles: working conditions	p. 151
The nature of discrimination	p. 153
Difficult careers: the case of Edith Morley	p. 156
Obstacles: careers versus marriage	p. 161
Difficult careers: the case of Margaret Miller	p. 163
Networks of support	p. 167
The British Federation of University Women	p. 172
Student life	p. 189
"Penetration" and "acceptance": thinking about change	p. 189
Segregation versus assimilation: interpreting the evidence	p. 190
Protecting women from men, or men from women?	p. 192
Masculinity redefined: male ideals of fellowship and performance	p. 200
Boat-racing, women and sport	p. 202
Speaking out: women's debating societies	p. 206
Gender and misrule: women and the college "rag"	p. 211
Conviviality or misogyny?	p. 216
Women's suffrage	p. 217
Women students and the community: settlements and social work	p. 221
Feminine subcultures and feminism	p. 223
Conclusion	p. 238
Appendix I: Numbers of students, 1900-1901 and 1910-11	p. 248
Appendix II: Numbers of students, 1920-21 and 1934-5	p. 249
Appendix III: Students and residence, 1937-8	p. 250
Appendix IV: The duties of the Warden of University Hall	p. 252
Select bibliography	p. 255
Index	p. 279
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No Distinction Of Sex?: Women In British Universities, 1870-1939

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