“Keep the Damned Women Out”: The Struggle for Coeducation

Nancy Weiss Malkiel, a professor of history emerita, explores the end of the 1960s, when many traditional, prestigious universities and colleges went coed. “Keep the Damned Women Out” (Princeton University Press) argues that institutions became coed not because they thought it was the right thing to do, but because they were worried about not getting the elite male applicants they were used to if they did not.