Title A new moral vision : gender, religion, and the changing purposes of American higher education, 1837-1917 / Andrea L. Turpin

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Series American Institutions and Society American institutions and society. Contents Introduction : engendering ethical education -- Reorienting righteousness : toward a new narrative of gender and religion in American higher education -- Ideological origins of the women's college : Catharine Beecher, Mary Lyon, and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary -- Ideological origins of collegiate coeducation : Oberlin College as a sending city on a hill -- Separate or joint education of the sexes? : religion, science, and class in national debates -- The chief end of man and of woman : Princeton and Evelyn -- A house divided? : Harvard and Radcliffe -- Not to be ministered unto, but to minister : Wellesley College -- I delight in the truth : Bryn Mawr College -- Almost without money and without price to every young man and every young woman : the University of Michigan -- Even an atheist does not desire his boy to be trained a materialist : the University of California -- Serving the college and the nation : YMCAs and YWCAs on campus -- Conclusion : trajectories and tradeoffs Summary In A New Moral Vision, Andrea L. Turpin explores how the entrance of women into U.S. colleges and universities shaped changing ideas about the moral and religious purposes of higher education in unexpected ways, and in turn profoundly shaped American culture. In the decades before the Civil War, evangelical Protestantism provided the main impetus for opening the highest levels of American education to women. Between the Civil War and World War I, however, shifting theological beliefs, a growing cultural pluralism, and a new emphasis on university research led educators to reevaluate how colleges should inculcate an ethical outlook in students--just as the proportion of female collegians swelled. In this environment, Turpin argues, educational leaders articulated a new moral vision for their institutions by positioning them within the new landscape of competing men's, women's, and coeducational colleges and universities. In place of fostering evangelical conversion, religiously liberal educators sought to foster in students a surprisingly more gendered ideal of character and service than had earlier evangelical educators. Because of this moral reorientation, the widespread entrance of women into higher education did not shift the social order in as egalitarian a direction as we might expect. Instead, college graduates--who formed a disproportionate number of the leaders and reformers of the Progressive Era--contributed to the creation of separate male and female cultures within Progressive Era public life and beyond. Drawing on extensive archival research at ten trend-setting men's, women's, and coeducational colleges and universities, A New Moral Vision illuminates the historical intersection of gender ideals, religious beliefs, educational theories, and social change in ways that offer insight into the nature--and cultural consequences--of the moral messages communicated by institutions of higher education today. -- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Online resource; title from PDF title page (Site, viewed 05/21/2020) Subject Women in higher education -- United States -- History -- 19th century Women in higher education -- United States -- History -- 20th century Education, Higher -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century Education, Higher -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century Universities and colleges -- United States -- Religion HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century. Education, Higher -- Moral and ethical aspects Universities and colleges -- Religion Women in higher education Frau College Universität Religion United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019717165 ISBN 9781501706325 1501706322 1501706853 9781501706851

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