![]() ![]() ![]() Grounded in student experiences of the period, this social history explores the origins of women's higher education and the rural roots of reform. Shared labor, a dense kinship system, a separatist denomination, independence from that denomination, liberal theology, and a secular mission all supported an explicit ideology of equality. Susan Rumsey Strong shares the history of nineteenth-century Alfred, explaining its uniquely liberal environment by focusing on the individuals who created it and the sociocultural factors that contributed to it. ![]() Founded in 1836 as a select school in rural western New York State, it embraced women's public speaking, women's rights, and even suffrage. ![]() One of the nation's first coeducational colleges and an early leader in women's higher education, Alfred University offered a remarkably egalitarian environment for women in an era when their voices were silenced elsewhere. Jonathan Allen, President, Alfred University (1867-1892) The essential powers of the spirit are neither masculine nor feminine, but human, sexless. ![]()
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