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Yale needs women : how the first group of girls rewrote the rules of an Ivy League giant
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Yale needs women : how the first group of girls rewrote the rules of an Ivy League giant

By Perkins, Anne Gardiner, author.

Published [2019] by Sourcebooks, Naperville, Illinois

ISBN 9781492687740

Bib Id 2276087

Description xv, 367 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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LCCN
2019-024227
ISBN
9781492687740 (hardcover) $26.00
149268774X
Call #
378.7468 P
Author
Perkins, Anne Gardiner, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2019034447
Title
Yale needs women : how the first group of girls rewrote the rules of an Ivy League giant
Publication Information
[2019] by Sourcebooks, Naperville, Illinois :
Description
xv, 367 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-354) and index.
Contents
268 years of men -- Superwomen -- A thousand male leaders -- Consciousness -- Sex-blind -- Margaret asks for the Mike -- The sisterhood -- Breaking the rules -- The opposition -- Reinforcements -- Tanks versus BB guns -- Mountain moving day.
Summary
"Yale University, along with the rest of the Ivy League, kept its gates closed to women until the class of 1969. The reason for letting them in? As an incentive for men to attend. Yale Needs Women is the story of why the most elite schools in the nation refused women for so long, and what the first women to enter those halls faced when they stepped onto campus"--
Subject
Yale University--History.
Women in higher education.
Sexism in higher education.
Women college students--Connecticut New Haven--History.

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