Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant

by Anne Gardiner Perkins

Book Overview

WINNER OF THE 2020 CONNECTICUT BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION AND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS FOR BOOK CLUBS IN 2021 BY BOOKBROWSE

"Perkins makes the story of these early and unwitting feminist pioneers come alive against the backdrop of the contemporaneous civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1970s, and offers observations that remain eerily relevant on U.S. campuses today."--Edward B. Fiske, bestselling author of Fiske...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149268774X
• ISBN13: 9781492687740
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Coeducation Arrived Late

This is a wonderful, detailed book that points out the less obvious details of change in an American educational institution where changed was necessary. Through the eyes of a few pioneering students, we see how much force it takes to knock down the walls of bias, discrimination, and arrogance. That it happened so recently is eye-opening. Equality remains an ideal, but the struggles to achieve it reveal themselves in unlimited linking events, both subtle and monumental. This story is a subset of that larger story, highly worth telling and reading.