| Description |
273 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Women's and gender history |
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Women's and gender history.
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| Contents |
Going to university in England between the wars : access, funding, and social class -- Men and women in higher education in the 1930s : family expectations, gendered outcomes -- Driving ambitions : women in pursuit of a medical education, 1890-1939 -- Wasted investments and blocked ambitions? : women graduates in the postwar world -- Gaining places : the rising proportion of women students in universities after 1970 -- Siege mentalities -- Women students and the London medical schools, 1914-39 : the anatomy of a masculine culture -- "Apostates" and "Uncle Toms" : challenges to separatism in the women's college -- Troubled identities : gender, status, and culture in the mixed college since 1945 -- The student rag |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Education, Higher -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Women -- Education (Higher) -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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| LC no. |
2005017434 |
| ISBN |
0415358175 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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0415358183 |
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