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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Malkiel, Nancy Weiss
Titre(s) : "Keep the damned women out" [Texte imprimé] : the struggle for coeducation / Nancy Weiss Malkiel
Publication : Princeton : Princeton University press, cop. 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xxv-646 p., [16] p. de pl.) : illustrations ; 25 cm
Comprend : Setting the stage : the turbulent 1960s ; The Ivy League : Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
; The seven sisters : Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley ; Revisiting the Ivies : Dartmouth
; The United Kingdom : Cambridge and Oxford ; Taking stock
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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."-- Book jacket
Sujet(s) : Femmes -- Enseignement supérieur -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Femmes -- Enseignement supérieur -- Grande-Bretagne -- 20e siècle
Classes mixtes -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Classes mixtes -- Grande-Bretagne -- 20e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780691172996. - ISBN 0691172994
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb451853570
Notice n° :
FRBNF45185357
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