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Breaking out : VMI and the coming of women
- Title
- Breaking out : VMI and the coming of women / Laura Fairchild Brodie.
- Author
- Brodie, Laura Fairchild.
- Publication
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2000], ©2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | LC212.862 .B75 2000 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xv, 350 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "On July 26,1996, the United States Supreme Court nullified the single-sex admissions policy of the Virginia Military Institute, the last all-male military college in America. Capturing the voices of female and male cadets, administrators, faculty, and alumni, Laura Brodie tells the story of the Institute's intense planning for the inclusion of women and the problems and triumphs of the first year of coeducation."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- 1. What Is/Was VMI? -- 2. Coeducation: The Initial Blueprints -- 3. The Case of the "Privateers" -- 4. The Language of Assimilation -- 5. Recruiting for a New Era -- 6. Sweating the Details: Modifications to Facilities -- 7. Femininity and Fraternization -- 8. The VFT and the Varsity -- 9. Preparing the Corps -- Interlude: Farewell to the All-Male Corps -- 10. The Dress Rehearsal: VMI'S Summer Transition Program -- 11. Memories from Hell -- 12. Problems and Procedures -- 13. Rat/Woman -- 14. Breakout -- 15. Looking Back at the Year -- Epilogue: Third Class Year.
- ISBN
- 037540614X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99049937
- OCLC
- ocm42603285
- SCSB-3863794
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries