University Women - 9780228008644

University WomenA History of Women and Higher Education in Canada\nAuthor(s): Sara Z. MacDonald\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780228008644, 978-0228008644\nSynopsis\nBessie Scott, nearing the end of her first year at university in the spring of 1890, recorded in her diary: Wore my gown for first time! It didnt seem at all strange to do so. Often deemed a cumbersome tradition by men, the cap and gown were dearly prized by women as an outward sign of their hard-won admission to the rank of undergraduates. For the first generations of university women, higher education was an exhilarating and transformative experience, but these opportunities would narrow in the decades that followed.\n\nIn University Women Sara MacDonald explores the processes of integration and separation that marked womens contested entrance into higher education. Examining the period between 1870 and 1930, this book is the .