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Going Coed: Women’s Experiences in Formerly Men’s Colleges and Universities, 1950-2000reviewed by Thalia M. Mulvihill - 2005 Title: Going Coed: Women’s Experiences in Formerly Men’s Colleges and Universities, 1950-2000 Author(s): Leslie Miller-Bernal and Susan L. Poulson (Editors) Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville ISBN: 0826514499, Pages: 338, Year: 2004 Search for book at Amazon.com Debates regarding the best forms and functions of education for girls and women over the last 200 years have often been tempered by medical, economic, legal, political, and religious ideologies. One of the larger issues at stake in all such conversations, regardless of the time period, is that of equality, and more particularly what constitutes equal educational opportunity within a pluralistic democracy. These debates reveal the great range of positions that exist regarding what constitutes “equality” and “equity” when applied to educational questions.
Leslie Miller-Bernal and Susan L. Poulson, the editors of Going Coed, a collection of case studies, bring into better focus one part of the larger story about educational equality that has previously been scattered. As they examine the still-unfolding understanding of coeducation, including how and why institutions of higher education respond to notions of equality, they have allowed for better comparisons across type, region, and institutional mission. Miller-Bernal... (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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- Thalia Mulvihill
Ball State University E-mail Author THALIA M. MULVIHILL currently serves as an Associate Professor in Higher Education and Social Foundations of Education and as the Associate Director of the Adult, Higher and Community Education Doctoral Program at Ball State University. She was awarded a Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry Fellowship for 2002-2003. Her research focuses on the history and sociology of education and higher education with a focus on women and gender issues. Recent publications include: “The Extended Influence of Dean M. Eunice Hilton and Katherine Sibley: A Case Study of the Collegial Integration of Programs for Women University Students, 1930s - 1950s,” Initiatives, vol. 59, no. 4., and “Physical Education and Women in Higher Education,” in Women in Higher Education, ed., Kristen Renn, (2002). She earned her Ph.D. in Cultural Foundations of Education and Curriculum and a MA in Higher Education at Syracuse University.
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