Bring Me Men and Women : Mandated Change at the U. S. Air Force Academy / Judith Stiehm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stiehm, Judith Hicks, 1935- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States Air Force Academy--Students.

United States Air Force Academy.

United States. Air Force--Women.

United States.

Women college students--Colorado.

Women college students.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1981]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Women's integration into the military academies afforded an almost unique opportunity to study social change. It was a tidy, well-defined natural experiment. The Air Force Academy was willing to permit the kind of external scrutiny that afforded an objective account of the facts of the first year of integration. For sixteen months the academy allowed the author to interview freely and repeatedly all persons concerned with planning and implementing women's admission. Working as a historian (with individuals and documents rather than with questionnaires), Stiehm tells the report of this first year as fully and as accurately as possible.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Tables

Introduction

1. The Mandate

2. The Academy Primeval

3. The Fishbowl

4. Plans and Plans and Plans

5. The Other Academies

6. Upper Body Strength: Physical Education and Athletics

7. Leaders and Surrogates: The Commandant's Shop

8. Immune Intellects: The Dean and His Faculty

9. Implementation, Feedback, and Modifications

10. Wives, Military Women, and Warriors

Postscript: Reflections on Women and Combat

Appendix I: Air Force Ranks, Insignia, and Career Progression

Appendix II: West Point Training in Preparation for Women's Entrance

Appendix III: A Partial Air Force Academy Organization Chart

Appendix IV: Organization of Service Academies' Student Bodies

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520342088

0520342089

OCLC:

1224279085