Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : engendering ethical education -- Reorienting righteousness : toward a new narrative of gender and religion in American higher education -- Ideological origins of the women's college : Catharine Beecher, Mary Lyon, and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary -- Ideological origins of collegiate coeducation : Oberlin College as a sending city on a hill -- Separate or joint education of the sexes? : religion, science, and class in national debates -- The chief end of man and of woman : Princeton and Evelyn -- A house divided? : Harvard and Radcliffe -- Not to be ministered unto, but to minister : Wellesley College -- I delight in the truth : Bryn Mawr College -- Almost without money and without price to every young man and every young woman : the University of Michigan -- Even an atheist does not desire his boy to be trained a materialist : the University of California -- Serving the college and the nation : YMCAs and YWCAs on campus -- Conclusion : trajectories and tradeoffs.

Description based on print version record.