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This book isn't out yet...but I think spring of next year it will be available (I'm quoting this off Kappa Alpha Theta's website):
"The author of Bound by a Mighty Vow: Sisterhood and Women's Fraternities, 1870-1920, Diana B. Turk, holds a Ph.D. in American studies and is currently an assistant professor of social studies at NYU. She was an undergraduate at Hamilton College, where there were no national sororities. The fact that she is not Greek may cause some to be uneasy, to suspect her motives and be skeptical of the spin she will put on the story. But Turk undertook the project with a completely open mind, and it is precisely because of her unaffiliated status that her work has and will be viewed as valid by her colleagues.
When she arrived at the University of Maryland to pursue her doctoral degree, Turk was intrigued by the activities of the sororities on campus. Upon investigation, she discovered that none of the studies of the history of women's higher education offered much information concerning the founding and development of the women's Greek system. She determined to explore the as-yet unexplored and use this rich source of history to tell the story of young women trying to make it in the man's world of the college campus."
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