the VMI case and equal rights
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Strum, Philippa
- Publish Year
- 2002
- Shelfmark
- B3863 - B
- Thesaurus
- militaire beroepen, onderwijs, riten, rechtspraak, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- For 150 years, Virginia Military Institute had operated as a revered, state-funded institutionnd throughout that long history, no one had ever questioned the fact that only males were admitted. Then in 1989 a female applicant complained of discrimination to the Justice Department, which brought suit the following year to integrate women into VMI. .Philippa Strum traces the origins of this landmark case back to VMI's founding, its evolution over fifteen decades, and through competing notions about women's proper place. Unlike most works on women in military institutions, this one also provides a complete legal history- At the heart of the VMI case was the 'rat line': a ritualized form of hazing geared toward instilling male solidarity. VMI claimed that its system of toughening individuals for leadership was even more stringent than military service and that the system would be destroyed if the Institute were forced to accommodate women.