Download or read book Deans of Women and the Feminist Movement written by K. Sartorius and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.