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.
Bring Me Men and Women Mandated Change at the U.S. Air Force Academy
About the Book
Table of Contents
List of 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