Dorothy Rosevear Strawn Papers 1938-1996 1960-1973

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Dorothy Rosevear Strawn Papers 1938-1996 1960-1973

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The last Dean of Women and first Director of Women's Studies at the University of Washington during the late 1960s-early 1970s.

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University of Washington Libraries Special Collections

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University of Washington

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University of Washington. Continuing Education. Women's Programs.

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Decision Is Destiny (1963 : Seattle, Wash.)

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University of Washington. Women Studies Program

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Thompson, Carrie Cowgill

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Strawn, Dorothy Rosevear

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Serving in the 1960s and early 1970s as the last Dean of Women and the first Director of Women's Studies, Dorothy Rosevear Strawn played a major part in transforming the role of female students at the University of Washington. When Strawn began her career at UW, her job consisted largely of enforcing social restrictions for women, but by the time she left she had initiated and directed programs that were grounded in the feminist ideas of the 1960s. Strawn was born in 1916 in Glenn's...

University of Washington. Office of the Dean of Women.

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University of Washington. University Archives

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