coeducation

Her meticulously researched and gracefully written volume reveals the heated confrontations and complicated negotiations that took place during the years before and after the first single-sex colleges she profiles made the transition to coeducation in 1969.

Virginia, perceptions of why members of the opposite sex attend VMI, and attitudes toward coeducation and its impact on VMI.

I think coeducation is important in today's schooling, especially in patriarchal societies like ours.

Fifteen years after the onset of coeducation, many male cadets still perceive female cadets as intruders who are more masculine than non-VMI women.

At one key gathering, the proponents of coeducation read a letter that proved decisive.

The move to coeducation often has been depicted as sporadic and episodic.

To Oakes Ames, the most tangible symbol of Connecticut's success at coeducation was the invitation to join NESCAC and compete head to head with the region's top (formerly all-male) liberal arts colleges: Amherst, Bowdoin, Colby, Hamilton, Trinity, Tufts, and Wesleyan as well as against long coeducational Bates and Middlebury (Ames 1982, 4).

This makes sense, she argues, because it was girls who participated in the "spirited jousting which took place within coeducation high schools and academics in the late nineteenth century" (373), and girls who exhibited the greatest physical freedom, riding bicycles and playing tennis.

Anthony and other women connected to the women's rights movement favored coeducation. In the late 20th century, at a time that many single-sex institutions became coeducational, research has indicated the benefits for women of single-sex education.

Partners in the Struggle for Coeducation at the University of Rochester

And Gina Barecca's bitingly funny memoir, Babes in Boyland, gives a personal account of the changes at Dartmouth during the tumultuous early years of coeducation in the 1970s.