Book
Licensed
Unlicensed
Requires Authentication
The Douglass Century
Transformation of the Women’s College at Rutgers University
-
Kayo Denda
-
Preface by:
Carol T. Christ
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2018
About this book
Rutgers University’s Douglass Residential College is the only college for women that is nested within a major public research university in the United States. Although the number of women’s colleges has plummeted from a high of 268 in 1960 to 38 in 2016, Douglass is flourishing as it approaches its centennial in 2018. To explore its rich history, Kayo Denda, Mary Hawkesworth, Fernanda H. Perrone examine the strategic transformation of Douglass over the past century in relation to continuing debates about women’s higher education.
The Douglass Century celebrates the college’s longevity and diversity as distinctive accomplishments, and analyzes the contributions of Douglass administrators, alumnae, and students to its survival, while also investigating multiple challenges that threatened its existence. This book demonstrates how changing historical circumstances altered the possibilities for women and the content of higher education, comparing the Jazz Age, American the Great Depression, the Second World War, the post-war Civil Rights era, and the resurgence of feminism in the 1970s and 1980s. Concluding in the present day, the authors highlight the college’s ongoing commitment to Mabel Smith Douglass’ founding vision, “to bring about an intellectual quickening, a cultural broadening in connection with specific training so that women may go out into the world fitted…for leadership…in the economic, political, and intellectual life of this nation.” In addition to providing a comprehensive history of the college, the book brings its subjects to life with eighty full-color images from the Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
The Douglass Century celebrates the college’s longevity and diversity as distinctive accomplishments, and analyzes the contributions of Douglass administrators, alumnae, and students to its survival, while also investigating multiple challenges that threatened its existence. This book demonstrates how changing historical circumstances altered the possibilities for women and the content of higher education, comparing the Jazz Age, American the Great Depression, the Second World War, the post-war Civil Rights era, and the resurgence of feminism in the 1970s and 1980s. Concluding in the present day, the authors highlight the college’s ongoing commitment to Mabel Smith Douglass’ founding vision, “to bring about an intellectual quickening, a cultural broadening in connection with specific training so that women may go out into the world fitted…for leadership…in the economic, political, and intellectual life of this nation.” In addition to providing a comprehensive history of the college, the book brings its subjects to life with eighty full-color images from the Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.
Author / Editor information
KAYO DENDA is the head of the Margery Somers Foster Center and the women’s studies librarian at the Rutgers University Libraries, New Brunswick, New Jersey. In 2016, she won the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Women and Gender Studies Section (WGSS) Career Achievement Award.
MARY HAWKESWORTH is distinguished professor of political science and women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. She is the editor of the leading feminist journal Signs and the author of many books, including Embodied Power: Demystifying Disembodied Politics.
FERNANDA H. PERRONE is an archivist, head of the of the Exhibitions Program and curator of the William Elliot Griffis Collection in the Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries, New Brunswick.
MARY HAWKESWORTH is distinguished professor of political science and women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. She is the editor of the leading feminist journal Signs and the author of many books, including Embodied Power: Demystifying Disembodied Politics.
FERNANDA H. PERRONE is an archivist, head of the of the Exhibitions Program and curator of the William Elliot Griffis Collection in the Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries, New Brunswick.
Reviews
— Rutgers Today
— Inside Jersey
"This well-researched book honors the impact of Douglass on the history of New Jersey and on the many young women who attended the institution over the last one hundred years. More significantly, The Douglass Century provides a thoughtful sense of the struggle women faced as they sought access to higher education and, as important as ever, the continuing challenges women face achieving leadership roles and equity in today’s society."
— New Jersey StudiesRutgers Magazine (Spring 2018 issue) mention of The Douglass Century in the "Letters" section
— Rutgers Magazine
— Rutgers Magazine
Topics
-
Download PDFPublicly Available
Frontmatter
i -
Download PDFPublicly Available
CONTENTS
v -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Foreword
vii -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Deans of the College
ix -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
1. INVENTING DOUGLASS: The Challenge of Women’s Higher Education
1 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
2. NEW JERSEY COLLEGE FOR WOMEN: Establishing a Tradition, 1918–1929
23 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
3. CHALLENGES OF THE 1930s
51 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
4. WORLD WAR II AND ITS AFTERMATH: New Jersey College For Women, 1940–1950
73 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
5. FROM NEW JERSEY COLLEGE FOR WOMEN TO DOUGLASS COLLEGE
93 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
6. PRESERVING DOUGLASS’S SPECIAL MISSION
117 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
7. DOUGLASS IN TWO TURBULENT DECADES: Student Activism and Institutional Transformation
143 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
8. CREATING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT, BY, AND FOR WOMEN
171 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
9. REINVENTING DOUGLASS: From University Reorganization to the Transformation of Undergraduate Education
199 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
10. DIVERSIFYING DOUGLASS
225 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
11. DOUGLASS RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE: Revitalizing Women’s Education in the Twenty-First Century
241 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
12. THE DOUGLASS DIFFERENCE
257 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Afterword
269 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Acknowledgments
273 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Notes
277 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Bibliography
319 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Index
329
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
September 2, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9780813585437
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook ISBN:
9780813585437
Keywords for this book
Douglass; women's college; Rutgers; Rutgers University; Rutgers New Brunswick; education; university; residential college; research university; women's history; higher education; women's studies; major public research; longevity; diversity on campus; diverse; ethnic diversity; the Jazz Age; Age of Jazz; American the Great Depression; Second World War; post-war Civil Rights era; the resurgence of feminism; tradition; student activism; institutional transformation; diversifying; historical challanges; alumnae; students; teachers; staff; cultural broadening; leadership; leadership in economics; leadership in politics; New Jersey; Mabel Smith Douglass; Institution for Women's; Center for Women in the Arts; Center for American Women and Politics; Eagleton Institution of Politics
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
