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Deans of Women and the Feminist MovementA World without Parietals

Deans of Women and the Feminist Movement: A World without Parietals [One semester after University of Kansas dean of women Emily Taylor’s first rules convention with the Associated Women Students (AWS), Delta Tau Delta hosted its 1959 fall party at the fraternity house. Held in the public living areas of the home, members and their dates enjoyed a university-sanctioned evening of socializing. The men’s housemother, likely in her quarters on the main floor of the house, chaperoned. In the midst of the evening, one fraternity member and his date disappeared to the third-floor dormitory rooms. Rarely did a coed leave the public areas of men’s residences, and several reports quickly reached the dean of women’s office. The young woman, a first year student, soon found herself sitting across from the women students serving on the AWS board of standards and Assistant Dean of Women Pat Patterson in a disciplinary hearing. Facing expulsion, the young woman explained she had gone upstairs looking for her date and that she simply “sat on his bed until he was feeling better.” The AWS leaders “questioned the validity of her statements as they were contrary to many other reports.” AWS placed the woman on social probation and required her to write to her parents confessing that she had accompanied her date to his bedroom.1] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
ISBN
978-1-349-46555-2
Pages
87 –118
DOI
10.1057/9781137481344_5
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Abstract

[One semester after University of Kansas dean of women Emily Taylor’s first rules convention with the Associated Women Students (AWS), Delta Tau Delta hosted its 1959 fall party at the fraternity house. Held in the public living areas of the home, members and their dates enjoyed a university-sanctioned evening of socializing. The men’s housemother, likely in her quarters on the main floor of the house, chaperoned. In the midst of the evening, one fraternity member and his date disappeared to the third-floor dormitory rooms. Rarely did a coed leave the public areas of men’s residences, and several reports quickly reached the dean of women’s office. The young woman, a first year student, soon found herself sitting across from the women students serving on the AWS board of standards and Assistant Dean of Women Pat Patterson in a disciplinary hearing. Facing expulsion, the young woman explained she had gone upstairs looking for her date and that she simply “sat on his bed until he was feeling better.” The AWS leaders “questioned the validity of her statements as they were contrary to many other reports.” AWS placed the woman on social probation and required her to write to her parents confessing that she had accompanied her date to his bedroom.1]

Published: Oct 31, 2015

Keywords: Sexual Harassment; Unplanned Pregnancy; Feminist Movement; Woman Student; Residence Hall

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