In this Book
- Her Oxford
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: Vanderbilt University Press
Her Oxford looks at the people and the political and social forces that produced this dramatic transformation. Drawing on a vast array of biographies, histories, obituaries, and archives, Batson traces not only the institutional struggles over privileges and disciplinary rules for women, but also the rich texture of everyday life-women's amateur theatricals, debating societies, sports, and college escapades (Dorothy Sayers is the subject of quite a few). She tells the stories of women's active roles in two war efforts and in the suffrage movement.
An unusual feature of the book is the set of 120 biographical profiles of women who attended Oxford between 1879 and 1960. They constitute a Who's Who of women scientists, anthropologists, psychotherapists, educators, novelists, and social reformers in the English-speaking world.
Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- p. ix
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xvii-xviii
- 1. Parting the Curtains
- pp. 1-14
- 2. A Little Leavening
- pp. 15-32
- 3. Plain Living and High Thinking
- pp. 33-45
- 5. First Adventurers, 1879–1889
- pp. 57-73
- 7. Honored Guests
- pp. 99-111
- 8. The New Woman
- pp. 112-129
- 9. New Principals, New Premises
- pp. 130-145
- 10. On the Threshold
- pp. 146-160
- 11. A Time of Sacrifice
- pp. 161-175
- 13. A Changing Order
- pp. 199-215
- 14. Weathering Storms
- pp. 216-228
- 15. Looking Outward
- pp. 229-243
- 16. War Again
- pp. 244-259
- 17. An Austere Feast
- pp. 260-273
- 18. Full Status
- pp. 274-284
- Appendix 5. Principals and Staff, 1945–1955
- pp. 321-330
- Bibliography
- pp. 359-365
- Index and Credits
- pp. 367-380
Additional Information
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2008