Fighting the wave of change: cultural transformation and coeducation at Mississippi University for Women, 1884 to 1982
- UNCW Author/Contributor (non-UNCW co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Mona K. Vance (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW )
- Web Site: http://library.uncw.edu/
- Advisor
- William Moore
Abstract: In the eighteenth century, educational opportunities for women existed largely in
separate single-sex institutions especially in the South. In 1884, Mississippi established
the first all-female public university in the country, the Industrial Institute and College
(now Mississippi University for Women). Other states across the South, such as North
Carolina and Georgia, soon created similar schools. By the 1970s, however, all of the
single-sex public colleges for women had adopted coeducation except for Mississippi
University for Women (MUW). In 1980, MUW found itself at the center of a legal battle
over single-sex admission policies when Joe Hogan, a male nurse, sued the public
institution. The case revealed a splintering between two distinct factions, traditionalists
who wished to maintain the cultural status quo and social reformers who pushed for
transformations. The splintering that occurred at MUW is a microcosm of the larger
societal shift that occurred between ideological forces over the transformation from
single-sex education to coeducation across the South.
Fighting the wave of change: cultural transformation and coeducation at Mississippi University for Women, 1884 to 1982
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- Publication
- Thesis
- A Thesis Submitted to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Masters of Arts
- Language: English
- Date: 2009
- Keywords
- Coeducation--Mississippi--History, Education, Higher--Social aspects--Mississippi, Mississippi University for Women--History, Single-sex schools--Mississippi--History, Women's colleges--Mississippi--History, Universities and colleges--Mississippi--History
- Subjects
- Mississippi University for Women -- History
- Universities and colleges -- Mississippi -- History
- Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- Mississippi
- Coeducation -- Mississippi -- History
- Single-sex schools -- Mississippi -- History
- Women's colleges -- Mississippi -- History