Women in Higher Education: A Select Bibliography of Sources in Duke University Libraries

This Bibliography was initially put together in 1989 and is not intended to be comprehensive. You will want to consult Duke Libraries' on-line catalog for more recent publications and any additional materials the library may have. Feel free to ask the Women's Studies Reference Archivist if you need help finding information on this topic.

• Perkins Library Reference
• Perkins Library Stacks
• Manuscript Collections in Special Collections Library
• Newspapers and Microforms
• Pamphlet Collection (Perkins Circulation)
• Periodicals
• Rare Books in the Special Collections Library

Perkins Library Reference

Ref. z378.73 B365B

Beech, Mark. A Bibliographic Guide to American Colleges and Universities from Colonial Times to the Present. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1975.

Index area qz370.5 C976

Current Index to Journals in Education. 1975-present. (Earlier volumes in Perkins stack. Computer searching available - ask at Reference Desk).

Ref. 378.73 A 512Fx

Fact Book on Higher Education. New York: American Council on Education, 1984-present. (Latest in Reference, earlier volumes in Perkins stacks.)

Index area 378.1940973 H638 E24x

Higher Education Abstracts. (Latest five years, earlier volumes in Perkins stacks).

Ref. 016.3780072 Q2 R432

Quay, Richard H. Research in Higher Education: A Guide to Source Bibliographies. 2nd ed. Phoenix: Oryx, 1985.

Index area 016.37078 R434x

Resources in Education. 1981-present. (Earlier volumes in Perkins stacks. Computer searching available - ask at Reference Desk).

Perkins Library Stacks

370.92 M681 A633

Antler, Joyce. Lucy Sprague Mitchell: The Making of a Modern Woman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

376.65 S693

Astin, Helen S., ed. Some Action of Her Own: The Adult Woman and Higher Education. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1976.

396.5 A854W

Astin, Helen S. The Woman Doctorate in America: Origins, Career, and Family. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1969.

376.6 B642

Blandin, Isabella Margaret Elizabeth. History of Higher Education of Women in the South Prior to 1860. New York and Washington: Neale Publishing Co., 1909.

376.8 C725 V312

Colton, Elizabeth Avery. The Various Types of Southern Colleges for Women. Raleigh, N.C.: Mitchell Printing Co., 1917.

016.37812 F231 A168

Farley, Jennie. Academic Women and Employment Discrimination: A Critical Annotated Bibliography. Ithaca, N.Y.: New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1982. (Also in Law Library Reference).

376.65 F829C

Frankfort, Roberts. Collegiate Women: Domesticity and Career in Turn-of-the-Century America. New York: New York University Press, 1977. (Also in East Campus Library).

378.73 E68E 1979 no. 1

Gappa, Judith M. Women in the Academe: Steps to Greater Equality. Washington: American Association for Higher Education, 1979.

376.973 G655P

Goodsell, Willystine, ed. Pioneers of Women's Education in the United States: Emma Willard, Catherine Beecher, Mary Lyon. New York and London: McGraw-Hill, 1931.

378.0088042 H236

Handbook for Women Scholars: Strategies for Success. San Francisco: Center for Women Scholars, Americas Behavioral Research Corp., 1982.

376.973 H816 A444

Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth Century Beginnings to the 1930s. New York: Knopf, 1984.

376.650973 K81 W872

Komarovsky, Mirra. Women in Colleges: Shaping New Feminine Identities. New York: Basic Books, 1985. (Also in East Campus Library).

376.650973 R311

Minnich, Elizabeth, Jean O'Barr, and Rachel Rosenfield, eds. Reconstructing the Academy: Women's Education and Women's Studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

016.378 M822 W872

Moore, Kathryn M. Women in Higher Education: A Contemporary Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: National Association of Women Deans, Administrators, and Counselors, 1979.

376.973 N541C

Newcomer, Mabel. A Century of Higher Education for American Women. New York: Harper, 1959.

376.650973 D182

Rothman, David. The Dangers of Education: Sexism and the Origins of Women's Colleges. New York: Garland, 1987.

375.0088 W872

Schuster, Marilyn R., and Susan R. Van Dyne, eds. Women's Place in the Academy: Transforming the Liberal Arts Curriculum. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Allanheld, 1985.

376.6 S452N

Seeley, L. Clarke. The Need of a Collegiate Education for Women. Springfield, Mass.: Clark W. Bryan & Co., 1874.

616.9803092 H217 S565

Sicherman, Barbara. Alice Hamilton, A Life in Letters. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984. (Also in East Campus Library and Medical Center Historical Collection).

378.S589 A168

Simeone, Angela. Academic Women: Working Towards Equality. [South Hadley,] Mass.: Bergin & Garvey, 1987. (Also in Law Library).

376.973 S689 I35

Soloman, Barbara M. In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.

376.S936D

Styrtevant, Sarah Martha, ed. Deans at Work: Discussion by Eight Women Deans of Various Phases of Their Work. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1930.

305.4071173 F692

Treichler, Paula A. For Alma Mater: Theory and Practice in Feminist Scholarship. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985. (Also in Law Library).

376.973 W912H

Woody, Thomas. A History of Women's Education in the United States. New York: Science Press, 1929.

Manuscript Collections in Special Collections Library

American Association of University Women Records, 1931-1976. Durham, N.C.

Financial records, minutes, yearbooks, directories, annual reports documenting the administrative functions of Durham Branch of national organization.

Ellen Bartlett Papers, 1856-1888. Broad Brook, Conn.

Letters to Bartlett from a number of female relatives and friend concerning the schools and colleges of Connecticut and Illinois, education of women, teachers and their salaries.

John Clopton Papers, 1629-1915. Manchester, Va.

Includes financial record books, 1861-1865 of Adelaide Clopton, containing lists of students, tuition accounts, and the minutes and constitution of the Keecoughton Literary Society at Chesapeake Female College.

Amanda E. Gardner Papers, 1833-1892. Cahaba, Ala.

Family correspondence contains information on Elizabeth Gardner's education at Presbyterian Female Collegiate Institute, Talladega, Ala., 1854-1855.

Cora Perry McCanless Papers, 1893-1933. Asheville, N.C.

Includes course essays and grade reports, 1895-1897 relating to McCanless' work as a student at the Asheville Female College.

Louisa Bouknight and Mary Barnett Poppenheim Papers, 1871-1955. Charleston, S.C.

Correspondence related to the two sisters' education at Vassar during the 1880s. Mary was the first Southerner to be awarded a degree from Vassar.

Frank Lewis Reid Papers, 1893-1897. Greensboro, N.C.

Contains 1893 and 1896 president's report of Greensboro Female College, a sketch of the college's Emerson Literary Society, and the 1897 alumnae address of Sallie S. Cotton which discusses the importance of women's education and the power of women's clubs.

Scarborough Family Papers, 1760-1939. Mount Gilead, N.C.

Family correspondence includes information on education and student life at Davenport Female College during the 19th century.

Newspapers and Microforms

S5327 American Periodical Series, 1741-1900.

Includes the following periodicals which contain articles concerning the education of women: American Journal of Education, Godey's Magazine, Ladies Garland, and The Chatauguan.

S12 Chronicle of Higher Education, 1967-date.

(Also in Periodicals, East Campus Library Newspapers, and Law Library Periodicals).

M5554 Early American Imprints, 1639-1800.

Collection contains entries by women such as Mary Wollstonecraft.

Pamphlet Collection (Perkins Circulation)

Includes numerous published opening and commencement addresses delivered throughout the 19th and 20th centuries at various female academies and women's colleges such as Brooklyn Female Academy, 1846, Pennsylvania Female College, 1853, and Rutgers Female College, 1860.

Periodicals

Per N277WD

Journal of the National Association for Women Deans, Administrators, and Counselors. 1956-date. (Also in Newspapers and Microforms).

Per N532OH

Meeting Women's Educational Needs. Clare Rose, issue editor. San Francisco: Josey-Bass, 1975.

Rare Books in the Special Collections Library

E q#733

MacDonald, James Alexander. Flora MacDonald; A History and A Message... [Washington, D.C.: J.W.Bryan Press, c1916]. (A pictorial account of Flora MacDonald College).

E 12mo #2123

Garnett, James Mercer. Lectures on Female Education... Richmond: T.W. White, 1825.

E S552L

Modern Education... Dublin: printed by R. Marchbank, 1775.

E #264

More, Hannah. Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education... Boston: printed for J. Brumstead, 1802.

Also available are numerous 19th and early 20th century catalogues, commencement and concert programs, and other promotional materials for American women's colleges, particularly from southern institutions and including several from the Civil War period.

Originally Compiled 3/89: Perkins Library (G. Daley, E. Dunn, C. Handler, D. Shaw)
Rev. 6/96