Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s

By Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Book Overview

An examination of the founding and development of the Seven Sisters colleges--Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, and Barnard-- Alma Mater focuses on the ideas behind their establishment and the colleges' architectural, academic, and social histories, as well as those of their twentieth-century successors--Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, and Scripps.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870238698
• ISBN13: 9780870238697
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Alma Mater sheds an interesting light on women's colleges.

I really liked the way Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz looked at the physical structure and plan of the seven sister colleges to interpret their varying purposes and views on higher education of women. I am currently studying the history of Radcliffe, and I found Alma Mater enlightening and valuable.