Title "Keep the Damned Women Out."

Published Princeton University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Series ICBP Technical Publications Series ICBP Technical Publications Series Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; 1 Setting the Stage: The Turbulent 1960s ; Part I THE IVY LEAGUE: HARVARD, YALE, AND PRINCETON ; 2 Harvard-Radcliffe: "To Be Accepted by the Old and Beloved University." 3 Yale: "Girls Are People, Just Like You and Me" 4 Princeton: "Coeducation Is Inevitable" ; 5 Princeton: "A Penetrating Analysis of Far-Reaching Significance" ; 6 Yale: "Treat Yale as You Would a Good Woman" ; 7 Princeton: "The Admission of Women Will Make Princeton a Better University." 8 Harvard-Radcliffe: Negotiating the "Non-Merger Merger" 9 Princeton: "I Felt I Was in a Foreign Country" ; 10 Harvard-Radcliffe: Playing in the "Big Yard" with the Boys ; 11 Yale: Yale Is "Not Yet Coeducational" ; 12 Princeton: "We're All Coeds Now." Part II THE SEVEN SISTERS: VASSAR, SMITH, AND WELLESLEY 13 Vassar: "Separate Education for Women Has No Future" ; 14 Vassar: "Vassar for Men?" ; 15 Smith: "A Looming Problem Which Is Going to Have to Be Faced" ; 16 Smith: "Recommitting to Its Original, Pioneering Purpose." 17 Wellesley: "Should Wellesley Jump on the Bandwagon?" 18 Wellesley: "Having the Courage to Remain a Women's College" ; Part III REVISITING THE IVIES: DARTMOUTH ; 19 Dartmouth: "For God's Sake, for Everyone's Sake, Keep the Damned Women Out" ; 20 Dartmouth: "Our Cohogs." Summary "As 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, "Keep the damned women out." 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-interest 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, [this book] is a breathtaking work of scholarship that is certain to be the definitive book on the subject."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Institut für Solarenergieforschung Hameln gnd Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd Subject Women -- Education (Higher) -- United States -- History -- 20th century Women -- Education (Higher) -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Coeducation -- United States -- History -- 20th century Coeducation -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration -- History -- 20th century Universities and colleges -- Great Britain -- Administration -- History -- 20th century College administrators -- United States -- History -- 20th century College administrators -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century EDUCATION -- Administration -- General. EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions. EDUCATION -- Higher. Coeducation College administrators Universities and colleges -- Administration Women -- Education (Higher) Koedukation Geschlechterkonflikt Bildungssystem Great Britain United States Großbritannien Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 1400882885 9781400882885

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