| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 131.3

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We Are a Strong, Articulate Voice: A History of Women at Penn State. By Carol Sonenklar. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xiv, 232 pp. Illustrations, index. $24.95.)

One can write a separate history of women at Penn State because for most of its history women at Penn State led an existence largely separate from the men. President James Calder introduced coeducation in 1871 when he arrived from coed Hillsdale College and brought two female students with him. Ironically, women were less separate at the outset than they would be for many succeeding decades. All students lived in the original Old Main (a coed dorm!), and female enrollments soon rose to 30 percent. But Pennsylvania State College developed into an engineering school with limited appeal for women and female enrollment declined so that men typically outnumbered women by about four to one.

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