Is Coeducation From the 1960s-1970s in the USA a Feminist Movement?

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10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_217How to use a DOI?

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Coeducation; Feminism; high education; women

Abstract

In this paper, the intended purpose of coeducation, and women's situation in the coeducation revolution that took place in the 1960s-1970s will be discussed to illustrate that the coeducation revolution is not a feminist movement. In the studies in the 1980s, most researchers sharply pointed out that the coeducation revolution was a self-interest strategy for all-male education institutions to maintain the high-quality source of students, their economic operation, and academic status concisely without many illustrations. To firm the view, the education policy of Amherst College in 1974 and the college magazine designed for the one-hundred coeducation anniversary of Middlebury College will be analyzed to see through the male attitudes towards coeducation and the difficulties women students and faculty faced in coed colleges, providing evidence and demonstration of the deceptive essence of coeducation revolution. By analyzing the essence of revolution, the paper is written intended to bring the reflection on women's place nowadays, ringing the alarm of facing the reality of women rather than indulging in extolling women’s power in “electronic-only equality”.

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