Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Context of Women's Higher Education -- 2 Exploring the World of Contemporary Women's Colleges and Universities -- 3 Providing Women Access to Higher Education -- 4 Campus Climate: Being Ordinary Is Not an Option -- 5 Developing Student Leaders: Women Who Will Change the World -- 6 Gender Empowerment for Campus and Community -- 7 Women's Colleges and Universities as Symbols, Contradictions, and Paradoxes -- 8 Raising Questions in the Present and about the Future -- Appendix. Multisite Case Study Research Design -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.