Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy. I'm Amy McPhee Allabest. Today we will be discussing a book by Princeton

Professor Nancy Weiss-Malkeel, Keep the Damned Women Out, the struggle for co-education. This book is a

fascinating in-depth look at the process that allowed women into American and British universities,

which were historically

male. And I must say I was shocked to learn how recently that process happened. But before we

blow your minds with the sexism that plagued higher education so very recently, I want to

introduce today's reading partner, Christy Skousin. Hi, Christy. Hello, Amy. Before we get into the book,

let's just learn a little bit about the author of this book, and then we'll dive into the text

after that. So, Christy, could you tell us a little bit about Nancy Weiss Malkiel? Yes. Nancy

Weiss Malkiel was born in 1944. She was educated at Smith College, obtaining her BA summa cum laude and graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1965,

and she went on from there having won a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to Harvard University for her MA in 1966 and her Ph.D. in 1970.

She joined the Princeton University Department of History faculty as Nancy Weiss in 1969, where she rose through the ranks from assistant professor

to associate professor to professor. Nancy's career as a writer and teacher has been a distinguished

one.

When she came to Princeton, she was already an accomplished scholar.

Smith College had published her solid full-length biography, as one reader called it,

of Charles Francis Murphy, 1858 to 1924,

respectability and responsibility in Tammany Politics in 1968.

She went on to publish several books thereafter.

While doing research and writing her later books, Nancy was also lecturing, precepting,

and leading seminars in the History Department and the Program in American Studies.

She taught or co-taught some of the largest courses in the department's history, courses that routinely attracted in excess of 200 students. The United States

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