Women at Cambridge

A study of women's education at Cambridge, first published in 1975 and now reissued with new material.

Rita McWilliams Tullberg (Author)

9780521644648, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 24 September 1998

260 pages, 9 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.43 kg

' … the story is a fascinating one … Tullberg unravels the most complicated web of issues and alliances'. Cambridge

This scrupulously researched and entertaining study of women's education at Cambridge is a book for the general reader as well as the specialist. It reveals a sorry tale of academic intrigue and prejudice. Picking her way through the complicated paths of university politics, the author enlivens her story with accounts of the many characters who were caught up in the battle. First published by Gollancz in 1975, this book is now reissued in paperback, with an extended new Introduction by Gillian Sutherland, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the first formal admission of women to degrees at Cambridge.

Introduction to the revised edition of Women at Cambridge Gillian Sutherland
Preface to the revised edition
Notes on research material
1. Introduction
2. Local examinations
3. The Schools Enquiry Commission and plans for a college for women
4. The foundation of the Cambridge colleges for women
5. 1881 admission to examinations
6. 1887 the damp squib
7. Interlude
8. A new campaign
9. A temporary wave of reaction?
10. A men's university: round four
11. Epilogue: the raising of a Proctor's hat
Appendices
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]