"Keep the Damned Women Out" (eBook)

The Struggle for Coeducation

Nancy Weiss Malkiel (Autor)

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2016
672 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8288-5 (ISBN)

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Nancy Weiss Malkiel is professor emeritus of history at Princeton University, where she was the longest-serving dean of the college.

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A groundbreaking history of how elite colleges and universities in America and Britain finally went coedAs the tumultuous decade of the 1960s ended, a number of very traditional, very conservative, highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom decided to go coed, seemingly all at once, in a remarkably brief span of time. Coeducation met with fierce resistance. As one alumnus put it in a letter to his alma mater, "e;Keep the damned women out."e; Focusing on the complexities of institutional decision making, this book tells the story of this momentous era in higher education-revealing how coeducation was achieved not by organized efforts of women activists, but through strategic decisions made by powerful men.In America, Ivy League schools like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth began to admit women; in Britain, several of the men's colleges at Cambridge and Oxford did the same. What prompted such fundamental change? How was coeducation accomplished in the face of such strong opposition? How well was it implemented? Nancy Weiss Malkiel explains that elite institutions embarked on coeducation not as a moral imperative but as a self-interested means of maintaining a first-rate applicant pool. She explores the challenges of planning for the academic and non-academic lives of newly admitted women, and shows how, with the exception of Mary Ingraham Bunting at Radcliffe, every decision maker leading the charge for coeducation was male.Drawing on unprecedented archival research, "e;Keep the Damned Women Out"e; is a breathtaking work of scholarship that is certain to be the definitive book on the subject.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.9.2016
• Reihe/Serie: The William G. Bowen Series
• Reihe/Serie: The William G. Bowen Series
• Zusatzinfo: 44 b/w illus., 11 tables
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Academic achievement • academic department • academic standards • Academic tenure • Academic year • alumnus • Amy Gutmann • antiwar movement • assistant professor • Bachelor's degree • Betty Friedan • Black Power • Boarding School • Career • chairman • Chancellor (education) • Classroom • credential • Cultural revolution • Curriculum • Dartmouth College • Deliberation • Derek Bok • discrimination on the basis of sex • Diversity • Doctor of Philosophy • dormitory • Drew Gilpin Faust • economist • educational program • Education in the United States • entryway • Equal access • Equal Opportunity • Equal Rights • Equal Rights Amendment • Exclusion • extracurricular activity • Faculty (academic staff) • fellow • female education • Feminism • feminist • freshman • gender-blind admissions • Gender Diversity • gender imbalance • Graduate school • Graduation • Grammar school • Hanna Holborn Gray • Harvard Board of Overseers • Harvard College • Harvard University • higher education • income discrimination • Institution • Ivy League • John G. Kemeny • junior college • Lawrence Summers • Law School • Lecture • lecturer • Massachusetts Institute of Technology • master's degree • Mixed-sex education • Mory's • NAACP • of education • old boy network • Oppression • Oral History • Phi Beta Kappa Society • President of Harvard University • Princeton University • Princeton University Library • Private School • Profession • Professional School • protest movements • questionnaire • Radcliffe College • Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study • Requirement • Residential college • Robert F. Goheen • Role model • Sarah Lawrence College • Schlesinger Library • Scholarship • Secondary School • Seminar • Seven Sisters • Seven Sisters (colleges) • sex-blind admissions • Sex Discrimination • Sexism • Sexual discrimination • sexual harassment • single-sex education • smith college • sophomore • Statute • Student • student affairs • Student movements • student protest • Students' union • study group • Suffrage • Teacher • The Daily Princetonian • The New York Times • Thomas Corwin Mendenhall • Tuition payments • Tutor • undergraduate education • Universities in the United Kingdom • University of Chicago • Vassar College • Wellesley College • William G. Bowen • women's college • women’s movement • women’s studies • Yale College • Yale Corporation • Yale University • Yale University Library
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8288-5 / 1400882885
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8288-5 / 9781400882885