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(More customer reviews)While the racial integration of US universities received wide publicity as it happened, and thence in what are now histories of those times, the sexual integration has garnered far less attention. However, this book brings together many chapters that collectively study the coed movement, if one may call it that.
Enough time has elapsed for a detached retrospective. But perhaps the shocking thing about this book is that it wasnt really all that long ago that prestigious universities could blithely deny education to half the race. And have this accepted as the norm. If nothing else, the book is a salutary reminder of how fresh some women's victories are.
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More than a quarter-century ago, the last great wave of coeducation in the United States resulted in the admission of women to almost all of the remaining men's colleges and universities. In thirteen original essays, Going Coed investigates the reasons behind this important phenomenon, describes how institutions have dealt with the changes, and captures the experiences of women who attended these schools.Informed by a wealth of fresh research, the book is rich in both historical and sociological insights. It begins with two overview chapters—one on the general history of American coeducation, the other on the differing approaches of Catholic and historically black colleges to admitting women students—and then offers case studies that consider the ways in which the problems and promise of coeducation have played out in a wide range of institutions. One essay, for example, examines how two bastions of the Ivy League, Yale and Princeton, influenced the paths taken by less prestigious men's colleges. Among the topics addressed in other chapters are how the presence of women affected schools with strong masculine traditions, such as Virginia and Dartmouth; how prior cooperation with a women's college eased Hamilton College's transition to coeducation; and how institutions outside the liberal-arts tradition, from West Point to for-profit vocational schools, have incorporated women students.In exploring specific cases, the essays illuminate such key issues as the impact of the women's movement and the development of women's studies as an academic discipline, the pressures exerted on institutions by economic necessities and legal challenges, and the strategies women have utilized in adapting to formerly all-male environments. In their conclusion, the editors synthesize some common trends among the case studies and assess what remains to be done to achieve gender equity in higher education.
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