A college of one's own: women and coeducation.(Babes in Boyland : A Personal History of Co-Education in the Ivy League, Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics, Going Codes: Women's Experiences in Formerly Men's Colleges and Universities, Yards and Gates: Gender in Havard and Radcliffe History)(Book Review)

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Leslie Miller-Bernal & Susan L. Poulson, eds., GOING COED: WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES IN FORMERLY MEN'S COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, 1950-2000. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004. 338p. bibl. index. $79.95, ISBN 0826514480; pap., $29.95, ISBN 0826514499.

Rosalind Rosenberg, CHANGING THE SUBJECT: HOW THE WOMEN OF COLUMBIA SHAPED THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT SEX AND POLITICS. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 396p. bibl. index. $29.50, ISBN 0231126441.

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