"Keep the Damned Women Out" : : The Struggle for Coeducation / / Nancy Weiss Malkiel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Malkiel, Nancy Weiss,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: The William G. Bowen Series ; 100
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (672 p.) :; 44 b/w illus., 11 tables

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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"
• Part IV. The United Kingdom: Cambridge and Oxford
• 21. Cambridge: "Like Dropping a Hydrogen Bomb in the Middle of the University"
• 22. Cambridge: "A Tragic Break with Centuries of Tradition"
• 23. Oxford: "Our Crenellations Crumble, We Cannot Keep Them Out"
• 24. Oxford: As Revolutionary as "the Abolition of Celibacy among the Dons"
• Part V. Taking Stock
• 25. Epilogue
• Manuscript Collections and Oral History Transcripts: Abbreviations
• Interviews
• Index