Transforming Women s Education traces the history of women s studies
at the University of Wisconsin. Drawing on oral histories and archival
records, it follows this history from the earliest arguments over
women's admission to the university through their acceptance as students
on equal terms with men, to the mid-twentieth-century development of
special programs for mature women students, and finally, to the
development in the 1970s of the new field of women's studies.
As students, teachers, administrators, staff members, activists, and
scholars or, in some cases, all of those the women described in this
book have been part of the movement that has insisted on their
importance as both learners and producers of knowledge.
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