title: "Back-fire to lust": G. Stanley Hall, sex-segregated schooling, and the engine of sublimation.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: State University of New York.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Graebner
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008091:Literature / Q000266:history*; D008297:Male; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States