No Distinction of Sex? : Women in British Universities, 1870-1939 Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Patterns of provision: access and accommodation	11
	Admitting women	11
	The Ladies' Educational Associations	13
	Women students: numbers and social composition	17
	Scholarships, grants and costs	27
	Making space for women	33
	Benefactions and the shape of provision	35
2	Patterns of supervision: lady superintendents and tutors to women students	56
	Chaperonage and control: professors' wives and "lady tutors"	56
	Delicate issues and dangerous women: Annie Besant and University College London	60
	Tutors to women students: the politics of appointment, status and role	62
	Protecting women's interests? The question of the need for separate provision	67
	Status uncertainties and troubled careers: the experience of women tutors	74
3	Residence: halls and hostels for women students	91
	The ideal of college life	91
	The practicalities of provision	95
	Lady superintendents, principals and wardens	100
	"Sweet girl graduates" and the serpent: the Bangor controversy of 1892	103
	Lady wardens: trials and tribulations	105
	A sense of community: Margery Fry in Birmingham	108
	Families, boarding houses or colleges? Models of community life	111
	Students or schoolgirls?	114
	A woman's space? Students, domestic staff and the privileges of hall life	121
4	Women academics	134
	The first appointments	134
	The numbers of women teachers	137
	Obstacles: research and sponsorship	141
	Obstacles: femininity and "worldly knowledge"	147
	Obstacles: salaries and pensions	148
	Obstacles: working conditions	151
	The nature of discrimination	153
	Difficult careers: the case of Edith Morley	156
	Obstacles: careers versus marriage	161
	Difficult careers: the case of Margaret Miller	163
	Networks of support	167
	The British Federation of University Women	172
5	Student life	189
	"Penetration" and "acceptance": thinking about change	189
	Segregation versus assimilation: interpreting the evidence	190
	Protecting women from men, or men from women?	192
	Masculinity redefined: male ideals of fellowship and performance	200
	Boat-racing, women and sport	202
	Speaking out: women's debating societies	206
	Gender and misrule: women and the college "rag"	211
	Conviviality or misogyny?	216
	Women's suffrage	217
	Women students and the community: settlements and social work	221
	Feminine subcultures and feminism	223
	Conclusion	238
	Appendix I: Numbers of students, 1900-1901 and 1910-11	248
	Appendix II: Numbers of students, 1920-21 and 1934-5	249
	Appendix III: Students and residence, 1937-8	250
	Appendix IV: The duties of the Warden of University Hall	252
	Select bibliography	255
	Index	279