Higher Education Quarterly · 2002 · 19 citations · 0 references
HumanitiesHigher EducationHistoryGender HistoryHigher Education HistoryWomen's HistoryHistory Of EducationModern Women's HistoryWomen In Higher EducationWomen's EducationWomen's Education HistoryWomen's Social HistoryGender In Higher EducationWomen's Access To Higher EducationWomen's Access To UniversitiesWomen's Educational OpportunitiesWomen's University AccessWomen’s Access To Higher EducationWomen’s Access To Universities
The nineteenth century movement to open higher education to women in England has been the subject of much scholarship in the last two decades. Studies of individual colleges have added to the corpus of research on how women were provided with formal higher education at this time. However, scholars offer differing theories as to why radical changes in the higher education of women took place when they did. This paper offers a synthesis of these various theories, and challenges the general perception that the opening of higher education to women was an ‘unexpected revolution’ (Bryant, 1987).