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- Title
FAIR AND TENDER LADIES VERSUS JIM CROW.
- Authors
Riley, Karen L.
- Abstract
The article presents a discussion on the racial and gender definitions associated with co-education and examines how both played a role in the history of the Mary Washington College, now the University of Mary Washington, and Madison College, now James Madison University, throughout the 20th-century. It presents a history of the establishment of the two colleges as normal schools, or teachers' colleges, for women in Virginia and explores how gender stereotypes about the academic abilities of women and fears of racial mixing prevented the state from adopting these schools as co-educational institutions.
- Subjects
VIRGINIA; UNITED States; COEDUCATION; JAMES Madison University; UNIVERSITY of Mary Washington (Frederickburg, Va.); STEREOTYPES; GENDER stereotypes; WOMEN'S education; RACE discrimination; SINGLE sex colleges; COEDUCATIONAL schools; TEACHERS colleges; HISTORY
- Publication
American Educational History Journal, 2010, Vol 37, Issue 1/2, p407
- ISSN
1535-0584
- Publication type
Article