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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Some edge wear on cover. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In teaching women one is confronted with different sets of academic demands from those of men. Whereas men generally are preparing for specialized ca- reers the demands of which determine the order and organization of their studies women are comparatively free to follow the lead of their own interests. In a women’s college (at least of the kind in which I have been teaching) there is so to say an open-field situation. We do not have required courses nor do we have examinations. On the other hand we do have a strict and very de manding system of education by dialogue and discussion. I see every one of my students individually in conferences for at least one half-hour every fortnight. This makes it possible to follow the growth direction and dynamics of each student’s individual development. The instructor in such a situation has to be willing not only to give gener ously of his time but also to participate in the student’s discovery of interests- even to the point on occasion of abandoning his own academic plans and point of view. It was in such a fluid environment as this then that the course which I am going to describe came into being-in relation to a context of in- terests not primarily academic but experimental. During my first two or three years I taught a survey course in compara- tive literature but at the close of the second year three students came to me. separately to ask for a course in mythology. Apparently my interest in this subject had become more evident in my teaching than I had supposed. I was excited by the idea and decided to give three separate courses-one to cach- the following year based on three quite different reading lists from three dif ferent approaches. (LL)