Summary
In the past, men dominated the field of scholarship while most women were limited to teaching schoolchildren. However, as more women sought access to higher education, the roles of women in scholarship expanded dramatically as they introduced fresh concepts and influenced the minds of generations of students. Women Scholars and Educators presents lively, engrossing biographies of notable female scholars, including Hannah Arendt, Hypatia, Maria Montessori, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Each entry focuses readers' attention on the women themselves and their accomplishments, linking their formative experiences with their later achievements.
About the Author(s)
Erika Kuhlman, Ph.D., is director of the Women's Studies Program at Idaho State University. She is the author of several books, including Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War; Petticoats and White Feathers: Gender Conformity, Race, and the Progressive Peace Movement, and the Debate Over War, 1895–1919; and Reconstructing Patriarchy After the Great War: Women, Gender, and Postwar Reconciliation between Nations as well as numerous scholarly articles.