*Coordinate Colleges for American Women: a Convergence of Interests, 1947-78/i examines the transition of collegiate educational environments from their earlier states to those of today in the context of coordinate colleges for women in particular. Anyone interested in the general cultural aspects of the years covered (which extend up through and beyond the pivotal 1960s) should also appreciate the book.
Can you tell us more, @merc81? Does the book focus on any schools specifically?
The author discusses pretty much any combination of schools you might imagine. Some will be familiar, such as in the longstanding relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe, others much less so, such as in Princeton’s tentative and ephemeral connection to Evelyn College. One of the greater twists, however, appears in cases in which women applied with an understanding that they would be attending as the initial female members of a formerly male college, presently to find that they had enrolled in an officially separate institution, as occurred at Kenyon.