CONTENTS
Acknowledgements = ⅸ
Introduction = 1
Notes = 9
1 Patterns of provision: access and accommodation = 11
Admitting women = 11
The Ladies' Educational Associations = 13
Women students: numbers and social composition = 17
Scholarships, grants and costs = 27
Making space for women = 33
Benefactions and the shape of provision = 35
Notes = 48
2 Patterns of supervision: lady superintendents and tutors to women students = 56
Chaperonage and control: professors' wives and "lady tutors" = 56
Delicate issues and dangerous women: Annie Besant and University College London = 60
Tutors to women students: the politics of appointment, status and role = 62
Protecting women's interests? The question of the need for separate provision = 67
Status uncertainties and troubled careers: the experience of women tutors = 74
NOECS = 84
3 Residence: halls and hostels for women students = 91
The ideal of college life = 91
The practicalities of provision = 95
Lady superintendents, principals and wardens = 100
"Sweet girl graduates" and the serpent: the Bangor controversy of 1892 = 103
Lady wardens: trials and tribulations = 105
A sense of community: Margery Fry in Birmingham = 108
Families, boarding houses or colleges? Models of community life = 111
Students or schoolgirls? = 114
A woman's space? Students, domestic staff and the privileges of hall life = 121
Notes = 125
4 Women academics = 134
The first appointments = 134
The numbers of women teachers = 137
Obstacles: research and sponsorship = 141
Obstacles: femininity and "worldly knowledge" = 147
Obstacles: salaries and pensions = 148
Obstacles: working conditions = 151
The nature of discrimination = 153
Difficult careers: the case of Edith Morley = 156
Obstacles: careers versus marriage = 161
Difficult careers: the case of Margaret Miller = 163
Networks of support = 167
The British Federation of University Women = 172
Notes = 177
5 Student life = 189
"Penetration" and "acceptance": thinking about change = 189
Segregation versus assimilation: interpreting the evidence = 190
Protecting women from men, or men from women? = 192
Masculinity redefined: male ideals of fellowship and performance = 200
Boat-racing, women and sport = 202
Speaking out: women's debating societies = 206
Gender and misrule: women and the college "rag" = 211
Conviviality or misogyny? = 216
Women's suffrage = 217
Women students and the community: settlements and social work = 221
Feminine subcultures and feminism = 223
Notes = 229
Conclusion = 238
Notes = 246
Appendix I Numbers of students, 1900-1901 and 1910-11 = 248
Appendix II Numbers of students, 1920-21 and 1934-5 = 249
Appendix III Students and residence, 1937-8 = 250
Appendix IV The duties of the Warden of University Hall = 252
Select bibliography = 255
I. Archives = 255
II. Parliamentary papers = 266
III. Theses = 266
IV. Published sources, pre-1945 = 267
V. Published sources, post-1945 = 271
Index = 279
Acknowledgements = ⅸ
Introduction = 1
Notes = 9
1 Patterns of provision: access and accommodation = 11
Admitting women = 11
The Ladies' Educational Associations = 13
Women students: numbers and social composition = 17
Scholarships, grants and costs = 27
Making space for women = 33
Benefactions and the shape of provision = 35
Notes = 48
2 Patterns of supervision: lady superintendents and tutors to women students = 56
Chaperonage and control: professors' wives and "lady tutors" = 56
Delicate issues and dangerous women: Annie Besant and University College London = 60
Tutors to women students: the politics of appointment, status and role = 62
Protecting women's interests? The question of the need for separate provision = 67
Status uncertainties and troubled careers: the experience of women tutors = 74
NOECS = 84
3 Residence: halls and hostels for women students = 91
The ideal of college life = 91
The practicalities of provision = 95
Lady superintendents, principals and wardens = 100
"Sweet girl graduates" and the serpent: the Bangor controversy of 1892 = 103
Lady wardens: trials and tribulations = 105
A sense of community: Margery Fry in Birmingham = 108
Families, boarding houses or colleges? Models of community life = 111
Students or schoolgirls? = 114
A woman's space? Students, domestic staff and the privileges of hall life = 121
Notes = 125
4 Women academics = 134
The first appointments = 134
The numbers of women teachers = 137
Obstacles: research and sponsorship = 141
Obstacles: femininity and "worldly knowledge" = 147
Obstacles: salaries and pensions = 148
Obstacles: working conditions = 151
The nature of discrimination = 153
Difficult careers: the case of Edith Morley = 156
Obstacles: careers versus marriage = 161
Difficult careers: the case of Margaret Miller = 163
Networks of support = 167
The British Federation of University Women = 172
Notes = 177
5 Student life = 189
"Penetration" and "acceptance": thinking about change = 189
Segregation versus assimilation: interpreting the evidence = 190
Protecting women from men, or men from women? = 192
Masculinity redefined: male ideals of fellowship and performance = 200
Boat-racing, women and sport = 202
Speaking out: women's debating societies = 206
Gender and misrule: women and the college "rag" = 211
Conviviality or misogyny? = 216
Women's suffrage = 217
Women students and the community: settlements and social work = 221
Feminine subcultures and feminism = 223
Notes = 229
Conclusion = 238
Notes = 246
Appendix I Numbers of students, 1900-1901 and 1910-11 = 248
Appendix II Numbers of students, 1920-21 and 1934-5 = 249
Appendix III Students and residence, 1937-8 = 250
Appendix IV The duties of the Warden of University Hall = 252
Select bibliography = 255
I. Archives = 255
II. Parliamentary papers = 266
III. Theses = 266
IV. Published sources, pre-1945 = 267
V. Published sources, post-1945 = 271
Index = 279