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Separate by Degree: Women Students' Experiences in Single-Sex and Coeducational Collegesreviewed by Linda Serra Hagedorn & Athena Perrakis - 2002 Title: Separate by Degree: Women Students' Experiences in Single-Sex and Coeducational Colleges Author(s): Leslie Miller-Bernal Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing, New York ISBN: 082044412X , Pages: , Year: 2000 Search for book at Amazon.com The benefits and drawbacks of single-sex education have long
been the subject of heated and intense debate among scholars who
seek to examine the relevant issues at stake for women educated in
the United States. In Separate By Degree, Bernal bravely
contrasts the reigning view of co-education as a tool for female
progression and social mobility while suggesting that single-sex
education for women promotes gender equity and addresses
deep-rooted aspects of sexism often overlooked or sidelined at
co-educational institutions. Further, she contends that since co-ed
women students are not taken as seriously as their men
counterparts, the environment at a single-sex college or university
becomes akin to Virginia Woolf's notion of "A Room of One's Own,"
wherein women can find support from faculty, administrators and
peers. To uphold her thesis, Bernal initiated a longitudinal study
of the class of 1988 at: (1) Wells, one of the oldest women's
colleges in the country; (2) Middlebury, a college which added
women to become a co-educational facility; (3) William... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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