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True North
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.95True North is the inspirational Canadian Chapter of Jill Ker Conway's life story, which began with her much love, bestselling memoir, The Road from Coorain. Beginning with her departure from Australia, Jill Ker Conway tells of her romance with Harvard House Master John Conway, of coming to grips with his manic-depressive disorder, and of their... more...
The History of Randolph-Macon Woman's College
The University of North Carolina Press 2012; US$ 55.00The history of Randolph-Macon Woman's College has a claim upon the attention of all who are interested in the education and achievement of women. Its course through the years is set forth in the present volume, in which the author has dealt with the pattern of life developed in the cultivation of the liberal arts. more...
Newcomb College, 1886-2006
LSU Press 2012; US$ 50.00Newcomb College, 1886?2006 shares the rich history and tradition of the college through a diverse and multidisciplinary collection of essays. Early chapters focus on the life of Josephine Louise Newcomb and her desire to memorialize her daughter Sophie, as well as the development of student culture in the Progressive Era. Several essays explore the... more...
The Women's Movement and the Politics of Change at a Women's College
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 152.00This study analyzes how Jill Ker Conway, first woman president of Smith College, implemented programmatic initiatives and changes to Smith's institutional culture that fit with her vision for higher education. more...
Golden Days
University Press of Mississippi 2008; US$ 87.50Golden Days includes twenty oral histories of women who graduated from Mississippi State College for Women (now Mississippi University for Women) at least fifty years ago. From Mary Ellen Weathersby Pope's (1926) description of a teaching career beginning just before the 1927 Delta flood to Juanita McCown Hight's (1934) account of campus conversations... more...
Liberating Sanctuary
Lexington Books 2011; US$ 64.99The essays in Liberating Sanctuary: 100 Years of Women?s Education at the College of St. Catherine , edited by Jane Lamm Carroll, Joanne Cavallaro, and Sharon Doherty examine key figures, decisions, and ideas over the College's 100 year history, linking the story through a central theme: the paradox of institutional goals that seek both to liberate... more...
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