Description of the transformation of the University of Oxford from an exclusively male bastion to a university open to female students. The author describes the institutional struggles over privileges and disciplinary rules for women, but also the everyday life of women's amateur theatricals, debating societies, sports and college escapades. Contains 120 biographical profiles of women who attended Oxford between 1879 and 1960. They constitute a Who's Who of women scientists, anthropologists, psychotherapists, educators, novelists, and social reformers in the English-speaking world.