Alma Mater Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s

Horowitz 'analyzes the architecture of each college as a way of understanding its social and cultural history. Blending the usual stuff of institutional history with a keen understanding of esthetics and design, Mrs. Horowitz shows how the physical plan of each college contained and implicit message about the way society perceived women, the limits placed on their aspirations, and the expectations about their relationship to one another.Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz is the author of 'Alma Mater Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s' with ISBN 9780870238697 and ISBN 0870238698.