| A Male President for Mount Holyoke College: The Failed Fight to Maintain Female Leadership, 1934-1937 Contributor(s): Meeropol, Ann Karus (Author) |
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ISBN: 0786471336 ISBN-13: 9780786471331 Publisher: McFarland & Company OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Higher - Social Science | Women's Studies - Education | History |
| Dewey: 378.744 |
| LCCN: 2013051153 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.80 lbs) 260 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 1930's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A struggle arose over who would succeed Mary Emma Woolley as president of Mount Holyoke College in 1937. Over her 36-year tenure, Woolley had transformed Mount Holyoke into an elite women's college in which leadership in the administration and faculty was almost exclusively female. Beginning in 1933, a group of male trustees determined to change the college. This book tells the story of how this group dominated the search process and ultimately convinced the majority of the trustees to offer the presidency to Roswell Gray Ham, an associate professor of English at Yale University. |