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Title: Ann Carver oral history interview 2, 2023 April 12
Creator: Carver, Ann C.
Date Created: 2023-04-12
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies--Curricula, Women in education, Sex discrimination against women, Africana studies
Description: Dr. Ann Carver discusses the development of the Women and Gender Studies Program at UNC Charlotte in the 1970s, illustrating the attitude towards women at the University at the time and the initiative of the female students who catalyzed the devel...

Title: Bonnie Cone Sawyer and Faye Reynolds oral history interview, 2013 December 5
Creator: Sawyer, Bonnie Cone, 1937-
Date Created: 2013-12-05
Subjects--Topical: Women college presidents, Women in education
Description: In this interview, Bonnie Cone Sawyer, niece and namesake of Bonnie Cone, and Faye Reynolds, friend of both the aunt and niece, share their memories of Bonnie Cone and give insight into her personal life. Mrs. Sawyer recalls her childhood memories...

Title: Cambridge women and the professional world : navigating gender conservatism in the late Victorian era
Author: Dobbs, Olivia, Pipkin, Amanda (Amanda Cathryn)
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Sex role, Nineteenth century, Women in education
Description: During the late nineteenth century, British women received better education, especially at the university level. In particular, the University of Cambridge opened two women’s colleges, Girton College in 1869 and Newnham College in 1871. The establ...

Title: The impact of educational reforms on Russian women from 1850-1900 : obtaining a higher education with the help of socialism
Author: Litchfield, Amber
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Nihilism, Women's rights, Women in education, Russia
Description: Restrictive governments breed revolutionaries, history has shown this much. Nineteenth-century Imperial Russia is marked by a time of reforms and liberations. The tsars' Alexander I, Nicholas I, and Alexander II mismanaged the reforms during this ...