西方大学男女同校制的开端与意义

1837年，美国中西部俄亥俄州的奥柏林学院首次招收了四名女生，标志着西方传统大学之门向妇女开放。但是从严格意义上而言，高等教育即便是在男女同校的体制下，却仍然长期实行男女隔离的教育。西方社会男尊女卑的宗教传统以及当时生物学上的某些谬论的误导是阻碍西方大学实施男女同校制教育的主导原因，但是随着西方社会风气的不断开化以及其它的经济、政治等因素的作用，女性进入传统大学和男性接受同等的高等教育的现实条件不断成熟，历史的潮流必将还女性包括受教育权利在内的一切平等的社会权利。     

"Back-Fire to Lust": G. Stanley Hall, Sex-Segregated Schooling, and the Engine of Sublimation.

G. Stanley Hall was an advocate of sex-segregated schooling long after most Americans had accepted coeducation. His position was based in part on personal experience: observations of his father and mother, a repressed and guilt-ridden boyhood sexuality, and his conviction that his own career success was a product of sublimated sexual desire, of erotic energy converted into mental energy. Hall theorized that coeducation put sublimation at risk, and that sex-segregated schools, by contributing to proper gendered development and by prolonging and sublimating the sexual tensions of adolescence, would produce social progress. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)