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| Title | : | "Keep the Damned Women Out": The Struggle for Coeducation |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.59 (681 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691172994 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 672 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-19 |
| Language | : | English |
"A great read" according to Amazon Customer. This is a delightfully written and painstakingly researched story of how some of our best known all male colleges struggled to admit women students against fierce opposition. It reads like an exciting novel that you won't want to put down.
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. 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 Dartm
Her books include Whitney M. Young, Jr., and the Struggle for Civil Rights and Farewell to the Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the Age of FDR (both Princeton). Nancy Weiss Malkiel is professor emeritus of history at Princeton University, where she was the longest-serving dean of the college, over
Or in some cases, the damned men."--Smith Alumni Quarterly"It may be hard for today's undergraduates at elite colleges and universities to imagine that many of their institutions--as recently as the 1960s and 1970s--would not admit female students. But the reality is that coeducation at elite institutions that were once all male did not happen overnight--and didn't happen without considerable backlash from alumni and others. "'Keep the Damned Women Out'. Nancy Weiss Malkiel tells the story in "Keep the Damned Women Out": The Struggle for Coeducation."--Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed"In the late 1960s, several prestigious universities in the United States-- including Princeton--decided
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