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A New Moral Vision /

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, eva...

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Autor principal: Turpin, Andrea Lindsay (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.