American women played in important part in Protestant foreign missionary work from its early days at the beginning of the nineteenth century, enabling them not

This book reinterprets the history of South African Dutch Reformed missions as a women's movement. It traces American women missionaries from Mt. Holyoke Colleg

In 1837, by virtue of dogged determination and never removing her sight from her goal, Lyon founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, the world's oldest continuing

Iconic leaders are those who have become symbols of their institutions. This volume of historical studies portrays a collection of college and university presid

An important new look at how gender, religion, pedagogy, and geography help shape women's scientific work.