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Article: Defining Women's Scientific Enterprise: Mount Holyoke Faculty and the Rise of American Science.(Book review)
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- September 1, 2007
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Defining Women's Scientific Enterprise: Mount Holyoke Faculty and the Rise of American Science. By Miriam R. Levin. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2005. xiv + 210 pp. $26.00 cloth; $19.95 paper.
In writing about the history of science at Mount Holyoke, Miriam R. Levin has created a mosaic of cultural, social, and religious history spanning the hundred years from its beginnings as a seminary in 1837 through 1937 when Roswell G. Ham became its first male president. When Mary Lyon first founded the female seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts, her primary goal was to prepare women teachers to find respectable jobs so that they could change the ...