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A Vision for Girls: Gender, Education, and the Bryn Mawr School

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“To educate American women and girls in ways beyond the traditional has been a dangerous experiment that has challenged basic notions of female nature and has appeared to threaten the social order… One such bold venture in female education―the Bryn Mawr School of Baltimore, Maryland―is the subject of Andrea Hamilton’s full of life and well-researched book… In Hamilton’s telling, the story of the Bryn Mawr School moves beyond its local particulars to illumine much about the history of American education and life… The importance of Hamilton’s contribution is that she never loses sight of the complexity of the school and its relation to society. Her history of the Bryn Mawr School helps us be mindful aspects of the unique position held by American women in national social, intellectual, and cultural life.”―from the Foreword by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Baltimore’s Bryn Mawr School used to be founded in the 1880s, the first college-preparatory school for girls in the US. Unlike other educational institutions at the time, the Bryn Mawr School championed intellectual equality of the sexes. Established with the goal of providing girls with an education just like boys’ in quality and compass, it endeavored to prepare girls to excel in a public sphere traditionally dominated by men.

Narrating the history of the Bryn Mawr School, Andrea Hamilton’s A Vision for Girls examines the value of single-sex education, The usa’s shifting educational philosophy, and significant changes in the role of women in American society. Hamilton reveals an institution that used to be both ahead of its time and a product of its time.

A Vision for Girls offers an original and engaging history of an institution that assisted in shaping educational goals in The usa, shedding light at the course of American education and attitudes toward women’s intellectual and professional capabilities.


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