Educational Work of Women's Organizations, 1890-1960 Book

Introduction: Women, Volunteerism, and Education   Christine Woyshner   Anne Meis Knupfer     1
Advancing Higher Education and Professional Work for Women
"Standing Up for High Standards": The Southern Association of College Women   Joan Marie Johnson     17
"Forwarding Our Great Purpose of Research in Education": Women and Educational Research in Pi Lambda Theta, 1920-60   Laurie Moses Hines     39
Cold War Women: Professional Guidance, National Defense, and the Society of Women Engineers, 1950-60   Laura Micheletti Puaca     57
Expanding Women's Influence in Politics and Social Reform Institutions
The National College Equal Suffrage League   Jana Nidiffer     81
Latter-Day Knights: College Women, Social Settlements, and Social Class in the Progressive-Era United States   Emily Mieras     101
"The Worker Must Have Bread, but She Must Have Roses, Too": The Education Programs of the Women's Trade Union League, 1908-26   Liz Rohan     121
"Uplifting the Race"
The Student YWCA: Intersections of Gender, Religion, and Race, 1915-25   Sharlene Voogd Cochrane     143
"I Think I'd Like to Have the Experience of Meeting a Negro": New York City's White Society Women Raise Funds for Black Colleges, 1944-60   Marybeth Gasman     163
Linking Friendship and Service: Education and Philanthropy amongthe Black Elite, 1946-60   Kijua Sanders-McMurtry   Nia Woods Haydel     179
Schooling Children
"Politics Are Quite Perplexing": Bessie Locke and the National Kindergarten Association Campaign, 1909-60   Barbara Beatty     195
"We Are from the City, and We Are Here to Educate You": The Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs and Tallulah Falls School   Andra Knecht     215
The Suburban PTA and the Good Life, 1920-60   Claudia J. Keenan     235
Contributors     251
Index     255