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Author/Creator:Perkins, Anne Gardiner, author.
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Title:Yale needs women : how the first group of girls rewrote the rules of an Ivy League giant / Anne Gardiner Perkins.
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ISBN:9781492687740
149268774X
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Publication:Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2019]
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Physical Description:xv, 367 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Local Notes:Yale medical historical book the gift of Rick High, 2019.
SMLYAL Y34 W6 2019p: In the original book jacket.
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Notes:Text in English.
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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"--
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BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (pages 287-354) and index.
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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.
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Subjects:Yale University--History.
Yale University.
Women in higher education--Connecticut--New Haven--History.
Sexism in higher education--Connecticut--New Haven--History.
Women college students--Connecticut--New Haven--History.
HISTORY / Women.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
EDUCATION / History.
Sexism in higher education.
Women college students.
Women in higher education.
Connecticut--New Haven.
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Genre/Form:History.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/14552306