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This book explores how deans of women actively fostered feminism in the mid-twentieth century through a study of the career of Dr. Emily Taylor, the University of Kansas dean of women from 1956-1974. Sartorius links feminist activism by deans of women with labor activism, the New Left movement, and the later rise of women´s studies as a discipline.

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1. Visions of Economic Citizenship 2. Practicing Political Citizenship 3. Unlocking Women´s Autonomy 4. A World without Parietals 5. The Dean of Women in the Age of Protest 6. From Quiet Activism to Radical Tactics 7. From Deans to Presidents

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"A significant contribution to the history of feminism and of higher education in the United States, Deans of Women and the Feminist Movement explores women deans´ commitment to gender parity in education and work from the early twentieth century. Using Emily Taylor´s career as a lens, the book uncovers feminist work in the academy from the 1930s to the 1970s and decisively challenges a range of assumptions about feminist activism in these decades: that feminism went quiescent, that feminists were largely on the political left in American cities, and that the academy was a site of social conformity." - Mary Ann Dzuback, Director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, USA, and author of Robert M. Hutchins: Portrait of an Educator

"Drawing on fresh archival research and extensive oral history interviews with the University of Kansas´s Emily Taylor, one of the era´s most important deans, Sartorius´s engaging book opens up a new chapter in writing about the history of student affairs and the history of women in education. Sartorius paints a compelling portrait of Taylor and provides a persuasive account of how modern deans of women helped empower women and fought for gender equity in higher education." - Andrea Walton, Associate Professor of Education and Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University Bloomington, USA

"Emily Taylor, observes her astute biographer, may have been the ´last of the great Deans of Women´ at the then-male-dominated public universities who, under the guise of protecting women students, raised fundamental questions: Why educate women? Were they, like men, preparing for work in the public realm? If so, which employers would hire women? Taylor´s own awareness that society valued her contributions less than those of the men around her placed her on the forefront of a feminist agenda for women´s access to equal pay and professional advancement. In today´s environment, Emily Taylor would have been on the forefront of the ´No Means No´ movement to counter on-campus sexual assault." - Sheila Tobias, author of Overcoming Math Anxiety; They´re not Dumb, They´re Different: Stalking the Second Tier, and Faces of Feminism: An Activist´s Reflections on the Women´s Movement

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