Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965

Writing a revisionist history of higher education for women from 1945 to 1965, educational historian Linda Eisenmann freshly illuminates the postwar era and in doing so identifies a link between women's activism in the war years of the 1940s and the active feminism of the late 1960s. While not radicals, the leaders in women's higher education in this period used "adaptive activism" to work within the system on behalf of women.