| Physical Description |
xv, 367 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
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 |
"In the winter of 1969, from big cities to small towns, young women across the country sent in applications to Yale University for the first time. The Ivy League institution dedicated to graduating "one thousand male leaders" each year had finally decided to open its doors to the nation's top female students. The landmark decision was a huge step forward for women's equality in education. Or was it? The experience the first undergraduate women found when they stepped onto Yale's imposing campus was not the same one their male peers enjoyed. Isolated from one another, singled out as oddities and sexual objects, and barred from many of the privileges an elite education was supposed to offer, many of the first girls found themselves immersed in an overwhelmingly male culture they were unprepared to face." -- Book jacket. |
| Subject |
Yale University -- History.
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Women in higher education.
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Sexism in higher education.
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Women college students -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- History.
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