Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-341) and index
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Making a welcome for women students: the discourse of coeducational inclusion by administrators and students -- The place of women students: reading the language and practices of gender separation -- The early practice of coeducation: literary societies as laboratories for separation and inclusion -- Women students' sociality: building relationships with men and women -- Women's course work: farm wives, finished ladies, or functioning scientists? -- Under the gaze: women's physical activity and sport at land-grant colleges -- "The American eagle in bloomers": "student-soldieresses" and women's military activity -- Challenging political separation: women's rights activism at land-grant colleges and universities -- Conclusion: Bright epoch: when the fair daughters joined the ranks