Cayuga's Daughters: 100 Notable Women of Cornell (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781483931852)

As late as the 1920s, when Eleanor Roosevelt's daughter Anna enrolled in Cornell's School of Agriculture, her grandmother complained that "Girls who went to college were very apt to be 'old maids' and become 'bookworms, ' a dire threat to any girl's chance of attracting a husband." In today's higher education landscape, when women earn fully half the degrees granted by Cornell in every category, this modest volume reminds readers of those devoted daughters of their Alma Mater whose cumulative strength pushed open the door for women in intellectual life, in politics, in industry - and includes the remarkable and influential who followed in their footsteps. It is not meant to provide a comprehensive nor complete academic reference, but rather an accessible distillation that recognizes many of the authentic heroines we already know, and introduces more than a few we ought to know.

Author: Michael Turback
ISBN-10: 1483931854
ISBN-13: 9781483931852
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/02/2013
Pages: 122
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.29d