Women at Berkeley: The First Hundred Years

Women at Berkeley, The First Hundred Years

Part I: 1870s through the Turn of the 19th Century

1.1870 Regents’ Resolution: Contexts and Consequences 1

2. UC Women Build Their Own Organizations 15

3. UC Women in the Suffrage Campaign of 1911 28

Part II: WWI through the 1920s

  1. WWI, the Flu Pandemic, and the Origins of 1920s Youth Culture 34
  2. The First Cohort of Women on the Faculty 47
  3. Why Berkeley Women Created Their Own Faculty Club 59

Part III: WWII through the 1950s

  1. The WWII Mobilization of Berkeley Women 68
  2. Some Women Lead the ASUC while Others Undergo Internment 84
  3. Postwar Decline in Women Students’ Numbers and Status 99
    1. How Women's Share of the Faculty Dwindled in the Postwar Years 115

Part IV: The Sixties and Seventies

  1. Sexual and Political Student Rebellion in the Sixties 131
  2. 1970s: Academic Women Reverse their Declining Fortunes 162

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