Emily Taylor Chapter Summaries

Great fresh start of Deans of Women and the feminist movement At a busy night, I opened this book and started to read the preface. It quickly caught my eye. This book is about Emily Taylor’s Activism in the field of women’s fighting for rights before the second wave feminism. In the preface, the author of the book, Dr. Kelly Sartorius wrote about the brief biography of Emily Taylor and her personal styles. Taylor’s hard-nosed, challenging style pushed students to consider what they might accomplish—even when they doubted their own abilities to do so. (Sartorius xx) And in chapter 3, Dr. Kelly Sartorius quoted plenty of Emily’s word to show her understanding and thought about leading women to fight for their rights. Certainly, by unlocking the parietals which governed women’s lives, Taylor opened the door for college women to face the world of dating

It’s also about gender. And Emily Taylor, from Dr. Kelly Sartorius’s pen, was a real pioneer of fighting for women’s rights in KU. She was not like some of other Dean of Women who were stuck in the rules and tried to use AWS to reinforce the original orders. She was also not like some of other DOWs who although tried to strive for autonomy by using student groups, it was their own autonomy, not every women’s. The thing she did was that she started changing the rules earlier than any of the students’ advocacy. Just as Dr. Kelly Sartorius wrote in the book, ‘Taylor would prove to be an activist dean of women in a nonactivist age, bringing with her the commitment to women’s equality she developed in her own academic coming of age a generation earlier.’ (Sartorius 61) Taylor brought the motivation to women in KU to understand how important it was to strive for gender equality and more women rights. KU grew fast with her lead and reinforced its mythology of social