Teaching gender : the British university and the rise of heterosexuality, 1860-1939 /
Drawing on the archives of ten colleges and universities across Britain (from 1860-1939), this book offers a new explanation for how British higher education became coeducational, arguing that gender-integrated universities played an important role in making the hetero/homo binary foundational to mi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Drawing on the archives of ten colleges and universities across Britain (from 1860-1939), this book offers a new explanation for how British higher education became coeducational, arguing that gender-integrated universities played an important role in making the hetero/homo binary foundational to middle-class life in the 20th century. |
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| Abstract: | "Teaching Gender explains the construction of the male/female and hetero/homo binaries in early-twentieth-century Britain through the improbable but illuminating lens of higher education reform. Drawing on extensive research in the archives of ten colleges and universities across England and Scotland, it shows that the nationalization and centralization of higher education at the turn of the twentieth century resulted incidentally in coeducation, over the protest of feminist activists who supported gender segregation; that students' negotiation of cross-gender interaction in coeducational universities ultimately led them to identify heterosexuality as a seemingly less fraught paradigm than more gender-neutral conceptions of ‘corporate life'; and that single-sex men's and women's colleges, though increasingly marginal, became important sites for the theorization of life paths and identities outside the heterosexual norm. Through detailed recovery both of political and financial decision-making and of the experiences and emotions of faculty, students, administrators, donors, and national politicians, it paints a vivid and resonant picture of the university campus as a key site for the transmission of norms around gender and sexuality"-- Oxford Academic. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198937524 0198937520 9780198937517 0198937512 |