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Pt. 1. Advancing higher education and professional work for women. "Standing up for high standards" : The Southern Association of College Women / Joan Marie Johnson -- "Forwarding our great purpose of research in education" : Women and educational research in Pi Lambda Theta, 1920-60 / Laurie Moses Hines -- Cold War women : Professional guidance, national defense, and the Society of Women Engineers, 1950-60 / Laura Micheletti Puaca -- pt. 2. Expanding women's influence in politics and social reform institutions. The National College Equal Suffrage League / Jana Nidiffer -- Latter--day Knights : College women, social settlements, and social class in the progressive-era United States / Emily Mieras -- "The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too" : The education programs of the Women's Trade Union league, 1908-25 / Liz Rohan -- pt. 3. "Uplifting the race." The student YWCA : Intersections of gender, religion, and race, 1915-25 / Sharlene Voogd Cochrane -- "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 -- Linking friendship and service : Education and philanthropy among the black elite, 1946-60 / Kijua Sanders-McMurtry and Nia Woods Haydel -- pt. 4. Schooling children. "Politics are quite perplexing" : Bessie Locke and the National Kindergarten Association Campaign, 1909-60 / Barbara Beatty -- "We are from the city, and we are here to educate you" : The Georgia Federation of Women's Club and Tallulah Falls School / Andra Knecht -- The suburban PTA and the good life, 1920-60 / Claudia J. Keenan.
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