Two hundred years after the founding of Harvard College in America, the gate of higher education finally started to open to women in the nineteenth century. Tracing the development of American womens higher educatio...Two hundred years after the founding of Harvard College in America, the gate of higher education finally started to open to women in the nineteenth century. Tracing the development of American womens higher education in these early years, the article discusses the three modes of education women had access to and the curricula for women at college. It also explores ambivalent conceptions of women reflected from American higher education in the nineteenth century: acknowledgement of womens right to education and confusion in extent and content of womens education.展开更多
文摘Two hundred years after the founding of Harvard College in America, the gate of higher education finally started to open to women in the nineteenth century. Tracing the development of American womens higher education in these early years, the article discusses the three modes of education women had access to and the curricula for women at college. It also explores ambivalent conceptions of women reflected from American higher education in the nineteenth century: acknowledgement of womens right to education and confusion in extent and content of womens education.
