In the company of educated women : a history of women and higher education in America

✍ Scribed by Barbara M. Solomon

Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 1985
Tongue: English
Leaves: 340
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A leading authority in the field here provides the first synthetic and comprehensive history of women in American higher education in over fifty years.

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