CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION by Joyce Antler and Sari Knopp Biklen -- Part I: THE EDUCATED WOMAN: CHALLENGES AND VISIONS -- 1. Educating Women Students for the Future by Nannerl O. Keohane -- 2. The Contradiction of the Educated Woman by Jane Roland Martin -- Part II: MOTHERS, TEACHERS, CHILDREN, AND CHANGE -- 3. ''A Vocation from on High": Kindergartning as an Occupation for American Women by Barbara Beatty -- 4. Women Educating Women: The Child Study Association as Women's Culture by Roberta Wollons -- 5. Black Women's Education in the South: The Dual Burden of Sex and Race by Elizabeth L. Ihle -- Part III: INFORMAL CONTEXTS OF WOMEN'S EDUCATION -- 6. Losing Birth: The Erosion of Women's Control Over and Knowledge about Birth, 1650-1900 by Janet Carlisle Bogdan -- 7. Immigrant Women Journalists as Agents of Change: The Women's Page of the Jewish Daily Forward in 1919 by Maxine Schwartz Seller -- 8. Taking Our Maternal Bodies Back: Our Bodies, Ourselves and the Boston Women's Health Book Collective by Robbie Pfeufer Kahn -- Part IV: PATTERNS OF WOMEN'S LIVES AFTER COLLEGE -- 9. Education, Work, Family, and Public Commitment in the Lives of Radcliffe Alumnae, 1883-1928 by Barbara Miller Solomon, with Patricia M. Nolan -- 10. The Impact of Higher Education upon Career and Family Choices: Simmons College Alumnae, 1906-1926 by Kathleen Dunn -- 11. Race and College Differences in Life Patterns of Educated Women, 1934-82 by Janet Z. Giele and Mary Gilfus -- Part V: FEMINIST TEACHING IN THEORY AND PRACTICE -- 12. Valuing Diversity: Teaching about Sexual Preference in a Radical/Conserving Curriculum by Laurie Crumpacker and Eleanor M. Vander Haegen -- 13. You've Got to Stay There and Fight: Sex Equity, Schooling, and Work by Kathleen Weiler -- Part VI. GENDER, PROFESSIONALISM, AND SOCIAL CHANGE.

14. Weeding Woman out of "Woman's True Profession": The Effects of the Reforms on Teaching and Teachers by Sara Freedman -- 15. Black Women, Interpersonal Support, and Institutional Change by Diane S. Pollard -- 16. Visions and Competencies: An Educational Agenda for Exploring the Ethical and Intellectual Dimensions of Decision-making and Conflict Negotiation by Nona P. Lyons -- 17. Shaping the Change: The Need for a New Culture in Higher Education by Margaret A. McKenna -- NOTES -- Introduction -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.