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Revolutionizing Women’s Education at the University of Oxford: Single-Sex Colleges and Identity Theory, 1870-2022 book cover

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Revolutionizing Women’s Education at the University of Oxford Single-Sex Colleges and Identity Theory, 1870-2022

By Dennis A. Ahlburg Copyright 2025
278 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book delves into the impacts and consequences of the policy of co-residence at the University of Oxford, investigating why and how women were kept at the periphery of the university and how Oxford responded to the growing demand for women’s higher education. The book further examines how the admittance of women into men’s colleges and vice versa ultimately shaped the identities of both the... Read more

1. Introduction  2. A University for Men  3. The Demand for and Supply of Higher Education for Women  4. The Founding of the Women’s Colleges: Why Were the Women’s Colleges Founded?  5. Why Did Single-Sex Colleges Exist, Persist, and Perish?  6. New College Starts a Revolution  7. A Changing Environment- Context  8. A Revolution Accomplished: The Men’s Colleges  9. Revolution Implemented: Working Groups of the Colleges and Universities  10. The Women’s Colleges Admit Men  11. The Impacts of Coresidence  12. Did Coresidence Lead to ‘Each College Having its Statutory Woman Fellow, and No More?  13. Conclusion

Biography

Dennis A. Ahlburg is Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus, Trinity University, Texas, USA. He has held Visiting Fellowships at Magdalen, Exeter, and New Colleges, University of Oxford.

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