ABSTRACT

Early advocates for the expansion of women’s higher education imagined a future that was deeply embedded in their aspirations for social, economic and political equality. In the vanguard of campaigns for wider access to higher education were women professors, they themselves outsiders within an academic hierarchy marked by male privilege. This article shines the spotlight on two women professors to understand the educational, social and cultural processes that shaped their lives. In doing so the extent to which their work was deeply marked by personal ties, social practices and traditions is revealed. The focus on the careers of Mary Hayden (1862–1942) and Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (1877–1965) highlights the themes and commonalities that emerge from their individual stories and the importance of continued nuanced and critical assessments of women’s professional lives.

摘要

早期倡导扩大女性高等教育的人设想了一个深深植根于她们对社会、经济和政治平等的渴望的未来。在更广泛接受高等教育的运动中，女教授是先锋，她们自己是在以男性特权为标志的学术等级中的局外人。本文将焦点放在两位女教授身上，以了解塑造她们生活的教育、社会和文化过程。在这样做的过程中，他们的工作在多大程度上受到了个人关系、社会实践和传统的影响。