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...fall of 1968, two girls named Janet Lever and Pepper Schwartz arrived on the New Haven campus to begin graduate studies in sociology. Women had been attending Yale graduate schools since the turn of the century, but around the university's ivied halls and paneled smoking rooms, they soon found out, to be female was a singularly disconcerting experience...
...authors, Pepper Schwartz and Janet Lever, were graduate students in sociology when the coeducational transformation began. Both knew Yale before 1969's Coed Week and had experienced Yale--"lush, expensive, and cloistered"--as an eminently male institution. The introduction of women into a tightly-knit society of male privilege presented a unique opportunity for a sociological study and the two women began accumulating data. Not content with simply interviewing the 96 undergraduates in their survey, Schwartz and Lever underwent mixers, beer guzzling, weekend trips, and pick-up attempts with their Yale subjects. Indeed, the data accumulated so rapidly that Schwartz...
...male Yale was as heterogenous as a Harvard final club. The Yale ego, according to Schwartz and Lever, was based predominantly on prep-school standards of virility. Indeed, the authors are obsessed with the influence the preppie code had on Yale society. Male friendships were intense and women mere objects of the necessary weekend proofs of manhood. When the coeducation experiment began, one "Old Blue" cautioned the undergraduates...
...book examines many of the social institutions which thrive on sexual segregation. Supplemented with Garry Trudeau's cartoons and extensive student comments, Schwartz and Lever undertake an entertaining, though generally facile ("The effects of the mixer on an individual can be destructive.") description of sexual patterns in an all-male or all-female institution. Ostensibly, as the college structure is transformed so are the social mores and individual relationships within...
...investigation al Yale also reveals one of the most significant aspects of the difficulties of women today--their lack of a collective consciousness. In the rush of both sexes to coeducate, Schwartz and Lever found, "female friendship was the last need on the agenda." Yale admitted undergraduate women for the first time in 1969. Each had high expectations of the other. Perhaps however, Yale has socialized women to its goals more effectively than its women have altered Yale...