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Dames, Dishes, and Degrees: Faculty Wives in America

By Amy Mittelman PhD
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By Amy Mittelman PhD
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In 1921, an anonymous, PhD-holding faculty wife asked in the Journal of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, “ Can it be in the divine order of things that one PhD should wash dishes a whole lifetime for another PhD just because one is a woman and the other a man?”

In Dames, Dishes, and Degrees: Faculty Wives in America, Amy Mittelman reveals what took place behind ivy-covered walls, tracing the origins and evolution of faculty wives’ clubs across American higher education. These organiza...

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