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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 |
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