"An important contribution to social history and to the history of higher education in the United States. The author underscores how much fears of unfettered womanhood entered into the plans of founders and leaders, but she also documents the determination of women students, faculty, and sometimes administrators to order their own experience."- American Studies "Meticulously documented and beautifully written, the book provides a brilliant analysis of the interaction among ideology, architecture, and social experience. In A Taste for Provence, historian Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz digs into this question and spins a wonderfully appealing tale of how.
She has done a splendid service in capturing the interrelationships among the nation's premier women's colleges in their formative years."- New York Times Book Review
Horowitz shows how the physical plan of each college contained an implicit message about the way society perceived women, the limits placed on their aspirations, and the expectations about their relationship to one another. Buy Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Womens Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s 2nd edition by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz. Blending the usual stuff of institutional history with a keen understanding of esthetics and design, Mrs.
"Horowitz analyzes the architecture of each college as a way of understanding its social and cultural history. Design and Experience in the Womens Colleges from Their - Available at Weekly Internet Rare Books and. "A fascinating history of the Seven Sisters colleges-Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, and Barnard-together with three notable 20th-century spinoffs from the same group-Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, and Scripps."- Boston Globe
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