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"Keep the damned women out" : the struggle for coeducation / Nancy Weiss Malkiel.

By: Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]Description: xxv, 646 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780691172996
  • 0691172994
Other title:
  • Keep the damned women out
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.822 23
LOC classification:
  • LC1756 .M26 2016
Contents:
List of Illustrations xi Preface xv Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction 1 Setting the Stage: The Turbulent 1960s 3 Part I The Ivy League: Harvard, Yale, and Princeton 2 Harvard-Radcliffe:"To Be Accepted by the Old and Beloved University" 31 3 Yale: "Girls Are People, Just Like You and Me" 54 4 Princeton: "Coeducation Is Inevitable" 81 5 Princeton: "A Penetrating Analysis of Far-Reaching Significance" 110 6 Yale: "Treat Yale as You Would a Good Woman" 136 7 Princeton: "The Admission of Women Will Make Princeton a Better University" 166 8 Harvard-Radcliffe: Negotiating the "Non-Merger Merger" 195 9 Princeton: "I Felt I Was in a Foreign Country" 214 10 Harvard-Radcliffe: Playing in the "Big Yard" with the Boys 245 11 Yale: Yale Is "Not Yet Coeducational" 268 12 Princeton: "We're All Coeds Now" 288 Part II The Seven Sisters: Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley 13 Vassar: "Separate Education for Women Has No Future" 309 14 Vassar: "Vassar for Men?" 328 15 Smith: "A Looming Problem Which Is Going to Have to Be Faced" 351 16 Smith: "Recommitting to Its Original, Pioneering Purpose" 371 17 Wellesley: "Should Wellesley Jump on the Bandwagon?" 390 18 Wellesley: "Having the Courage to Remain a Women's College" 412 Part III Revisiting the Ivies: Dartmouth 19 Dartmouth: "For God's Sake, for Everyone's Sake, Keep the Damned Women Out" 441 20 Dartmouth: "Our Cohogs" 464 Part IV The United Kingdom: Cambridge and Oxford 21 Cambridge: "Like Dropping a Hydrogen Bomb in the Middle of the University" 491 22 Cambridge: "A Tragic Break with Centuries of Tradition" 517 23 Oxford: "Our Crenellations Crumble, We Cannot Keep Them Out" 540 24 Oxford: As Revolutionary as "the Abolition of Celibacy among the Dons" 570 Part V Taking Stock 25 Epilogue 595 Manuscript Collections and Oral History Transcripts: Abbreviations 611 Interviews 622 Index 623

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Illustrations xi Preface xv Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction 1 Setting the Stage: The Turbulent 1960s 3 Part I The Ivy League: Harvard, Yale, and Princeton 2 Harvard-Radcliffe:"To Be Accepted by the Old and Beloved University" 31 3 Yale: "Girls Are People, Just Like You and Me" 54 4 Princeton: "Coeducation Is Inevitable" 81 5 Princeton: "A Penetrating Analysis of Far-Reaching Significance" 110 6 Yale: "Treat Yale as You Would a Good Woman" 136 7 Princeton: "The Admission of Women Will Make Princeton a Better University" 166 8 Harvard-Radcliffe: Negotiating the "Non-Merger Merger" 195 9 Princeton: "I Felt I Was in a Foreign Country" 214 10 Harvard-Radcliffe: Playing in the "Big Yard" with the Boys 245 11 Yale: Yale Is "Not Yet Coeducational" 268 12 Princeton: "We're All Coeds Now" 288 Part II The Seven Sisters: Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley 13 Vassar: "Separate Education for Women Has No Future" 309 14 Vassar: "Vassar for Men?" 328 15 Smith: "A Looming Problem Which Is Going to Have to Be Faced" 351 16 Smith: "Recommitting to Its Original, Pioneering Purpose" 371 17 Wellesley: "Should Wellesley Jump on the Bandwagon?" 390 18 Wellesley: "Having the Courage to Remain a Women's College" 412 Part III Revisiting the Ivies: Dartmouth 19 Dartmouth: "For God's Sake, for Everyone's Sake, Keep the Damned Women Out" 441 20 Dartmouth: "Our Cohogs" 464 Part IV The United Kingdom: Cambridge and Oxford 21 Cambridge: "Like Dropping a Hydrogen Bomb in the Middle of the University" 491 22 Cambridge: "A Tragic Break with Centuries of Tradition" 517 23 Oxford: "Our Crenellations Crumble, We Cannot Keep Them Out" 540 24 Oxford: As Revolutionary as "the Abolition of Celibacy among the Dons" 570 Part V Taking Stock 25 Epilogue 595 Manuscript Collections and Oral History Transcripts: Abbreviations 611 Interviews 622 Index 623

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