Women in Higher Education, 1850-1970 ─ International Perspectives

This volume undertakes a comparative study of nineteenth and twentieth century universities in English Canada, the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland, where unequal gender relations commonly regulated the voice of women and their perpetuation as a marginal group of academic intellectuals. It uses a variety of sources and methods to examine the experiences of the women students and professors who inhabited, constructed, and reproduced social and intellectual worlds within that context, showing how women negotiated their subjectivities and challenged expected norms in particular ways and forms within—and sometimes outside of—the intransigent rules and expectations on campus.

E. Lisa Panayotidis is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Calgary.

Paul Stortz is an associate professor in the department of history at the University of Calgary.