This book delves into the impacts and consequences of the policy of co-residence at the University of Oxford, investigating why and how women were kept at the periphery of the university and how Oxford responded to the growing demand for higher education.

Dennis A. Ahlburg is Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus, Trinity University, Texas, USA. He has held Visiting Fellowships at Magdalen, Exeter, and New Colleges, University of Oxford.

1. Introduction 2. A University for Men 3. The Demand for and Supply of Higher Education for Women 4. The Founding of the Women's Colleges: Why Were the Women's Colleges Founded? 5. Why Did Single-Sex Colleges Exist, Persist, and Perish? 6. New College Starts a Revolution 7. A Changing Environment- Context 8. A Revolution Accomplished: The Men's Colleges 9. Revolution Implemented: Working Groups of the Colleges and Universities 10. The Women's Colleges Admit Men 11. The Impacts of Coresidence 12. Did Coresidence Lead to 'Each College Having its Statutory Woman Fellow, and No More? 13. Conclusion