Nancy woloch biography
Nancy Woloch (born ) is an American historian.
Nancy Woloch specializes in U.S. women's history, legal history, and history of education.!
The Insider: A Life of Virginia C. Gildersleeve by Nancy Woloch
Virginia C. Gildersleeve left her most prominent mark on New York City as the influential dean of Barnard College, a position she held from to Without her “strong leadership,” wrote a colleague in the s, Barnard would likely “have disappeared as an independent college for women long ago” ().
In The Insider, Nancy Woloch offers a compelling biography of Gildersleeve, an important and difficult subject whose legacies are tangled up in many of the essential currents of US history of gender, race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and religion.
Not only was she known to be a stubborn, occasionally self-obsessed personality (just like many high-achieving men); Gildersleeve also took positions that were controversial then and now appear indefensible. Research has also been primarily limited to a highly untrustworthy autobiography.
Based on extensive archival research, The Insider puts Gildersleeve squarely on the map of tw
