Women at Cambridge

by Rita McWilliams Tullberg

This scrupulously researched and entertaining study of women's education at Cambridge, first published by Gollancz in 1975, is now reissued in paperback, with an extended new Introduction by Gillian Sutherland, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the first formal admission of women to degrees at Cambridge.

Genres: Nonfiction

260 pages, Paperback

First published September 24, 1998

Reviews

[Gareth Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

A superb academic history written in a very accessible style tackling the improbable story of Cambridge University’s long-running resistance to granting women full access to membership. As a graduate of Cambridge who spent his working life teaching girls, I find this reprehensible episode in my alma mater’s history of considerable interest. Why was Cambridge the last university in the country to come to its senses? Who were the defenders of male privilege and how dod they justify their actions? Why, when the majority view was in favour, did decades still go by before a resolution?
Tullberg’s excellent book provides many of the answers and sets them in an admirably clear context.