Table of Contents

PART ONE: THE PLACE OF WOMEN'S COLLEGES IN HIGHER EDUCATION; A History of Women's Colleges; Leslie Miller-Bernal; PART TWO: CASE STUDIES OF WOMEN'S COLLEGES THAT HAVE BECOME COEDUCATIONAL OR CLOSED; Vassar College: A Seven Sisters College Chooses Coeducation; Elizabeth Daniels and Clyde Griffen; Coeducation at Wheaton College: From Conscious Coeducation to Distinctive Coeducation; Alan Sadovnik and Susan Semel; A Catholic Women's College Is Absorbed by a University: The Case of Mundelein College; Prudence Moylan; Texas Woman's University: Threats to Institutional Autonomy and Conflict Over the Admission of Men; Claire L. Sahlin; Wells College: The Transition to Coeducation Begins; Leslie Miller-Bernal; PART THREE: CASE STUDIES OF WOMEN'S COLLEGES THAT HAVE REMAINED SINGLE-SEX; Reaffirming the Value of a Women's College: Mills College Changes Its Mind About Admitting Men Undergraduates; Marianne Sheldon; Simmons College: Meeting the Needs of Women Workers; Susan Poulson; Spelman College: A Place All Their Own; Frances D. Graham and Susan Poulson; College of Notre Dame: The Oldest Catholic Women's College Changes with the Times; Dorothy Brown and Eileen O'Dea, SSND; PART FOUR: CASE STUDIES OF AFFILIATED WOMEN'S COLLEGES; Rekindling a Legacy: Barnard College Remains a Women's College; Andrea Walton; Cambridge University's Two Oldest Women's Colleges, Girton and Newnham; Leslie Miller-Bernal; PART FIVE: CONCLUSIONS; The State of Women's Colleges Today; Leslie Miller-Bernal and Susan Poulson.

About the Author

Leslie Miller-Bernal, Professor of Sociology at Wells College, is the author of Separate by Degree: Women Students' Experiences in Women's and Coeducational Colleges. Susan L. Poulson is Professor of History at the University of Scranton.

Reviews

...comprehensive, accessible, and offers valuable information for those interested in gender equality in higher education.
--Contemporary Sociology

A fair, balanced account of the circumstances surrounding coeducation--both its benefits and its limitations.
--Choice

Leslie Miller-Bernal and Susan Poulson offer a new perspective on the familiar topic of coeducation and women's colleges.
--Catholic Historical Review