A Scandal in Evanston: Frances Willard and the Self-Report Controversy
Автор: Center for Women's History and Leadership
Загружено: 2023-02-02
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This Collection Close-Up, held Sunday, January 29, 2023, explored the story behind a document held in the WCTU Archives: the “Self-Report” forms that Northwestern University Dean of Women Frances Willard devised for her women students in 1873.
Self-Reports required young women to assess their recent behavior and confess which school rules they had adhered to and which they had broken. Chicago journalists found this practice shockingly dictatorial, and their exposés generated lively discussion about Willard’s management style. Today we might wonder why Willard, known as an advocate of women’s rights, instituted such a requirement for the young women in her charge.
Archivist Janet Olson examined the context, sensational reporting, and startling aftermath of the Self-Report Scandal to highlight the extent and the limits of women’s freedom in the new world of coeducation.
This Collection Close-Up is part of the Knowledge is Power: Women and Education program series at the Willard House. In recognition of the 150th anniversary of Frances Willard’s role as Dean of Women at Northwestern University (1873-1874), we are exploring the history – and prehistory – of women’s higher education in Evanston and the United States.
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