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082 0 4 _a378.1/9856/0973
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aTurk, Diana B.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aBound By a Mighty Vow :
_bSisterhood and Women's Fraternities, 1870-1920 /
_cDiana B. Turk.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bNew York University Press,
_c[2004]
264 4 _c©2004
300 _a1 online resource
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520 _aSororities are often thought of as exclusive clubs for socially inclined college students, but Bound by a Mighty Vow, a history of the women's Greek system, demonstrates that these organizations have always served more serious purposes. Diana Turk explores the founding and development of the earliest sororities (then called women's fraternities) and explains how these groups served as support networks to help the first female collegians succeed in the hostile world of nineteenth century higher education. Turk goes on to look at how and in what ways sororities changed over time. While the first generation focused primarily on schoolwork, later Greek sisters used their fraternity connections to ensure social status, gain access to jobs and job training, and secure financial and emotional support as they negotiated life in turn-of-the-century America. The costs they paid were conformity to certain tightly prescribed beliefs of how "ideal" fraternity women should act and what "ideal" fraternity women should do. Drawing on primary source documents written and preserved by the fraternity women themselves, as well as on oral history interviews conducted with fraternity officers and alumnae members, Bound by a Mighty Vow uncovers the intricate history of these early women's networks and makes a bold statement about the ties that have bound millions of American women to one another in the name of sisterhood.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aGreek letter societies
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
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