"Solomon's story, so thoughtfully carried down to the present, is one we have needed for a long time and certainly need now when the women's movement is no longer simply contemporary but a force of historical significance. The book is engagingly written and deeply informed."

--Carl N. Degler, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Stanford University

"This excellent, meticulously researched study is the first comprehensive history of women's higher education in this country. It will immediately become the standard work in the field, and will be invaluable to social historians generally as well as to those especially interested in women or in education."

--Anne Firor Scott, W.K. Boyd Professor & Chairman, Department of History, Duke University

"Tables, illustrations, and excerpts from letters, journals, and novels combine with the author's readable, thoughtful, and often amusing text to demonstrate the relationship between education and the possibility for change. . . . (A) major contribution to women's studies and American history."

--Booklist

"A solid, broadranging study of female students' changing attitudes and experiences. . . . (An) excellent reflection of the renewed interest in women's higher education."

--Kirkus Reviews

"[An] excellent, comprehensive study of women's education. . . . Demonstrating a firm grasp of the arguments, Solomon emerges as an integrationist, believing that neither women's studying nor the study of women should be done in isolation. This is the most thorough study of women's higher education since Mabel Newcomer's A Century Of Higher Education For American Women. Essential for public and academic libraries."

--Library Journal

"The broadest survey of American women's higher education written in this generation, Solomon's study is tremendously strong. It should become the starting point for scholarly and general readers asking questions about advanced schooling for women throughout history."

--Choice

"Solomon has done a massive amount of research. . . . Her organization contributes to a balanced representation of the experiences of diverse groups. . . . This is a valuable book for educators and students alike."

--Marie Olesen Urbanski, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"A lively account of the struggle for women's education, based on students' letters and diaries and women's achievements over the last 200 years."

--Phyllis Coons, Boston Globe

"An effective synthesis of material on the history of women's higher education in this country. . . . This study raises many of the important issues regarding women's education and provided a valuable foundation on which to explore those, and other issues, further."

--June Sochen, Journal of American History

"Essential reading for feminists and educators, appealing to general readers as well, this study joins familiar material with new insights gleaned from fiction, journals and the records of deans and dons."

--Publishers Weekly

Yale University Press Web Site, December, 2001

A leading authority in the field here provides the first synthetic and comprehensive history of women in American higher education in over fifty years.