{"id":509,"date":"2011-07-02T23:37:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T23:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/?p=509"},"modified":"2011-12-09T14:41:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T14:41:05","slug":"alpha-beta-phi-sorority-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/social-life-and-fraternities\/alpha-beta-phi-sorority-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Beta Phi Sorority Page"},"content":{"rendered":"

This page is from the 1990 booklet that introduced the student body to the Greek Societies (Document SS, 53).\u00a0 The Alpha Beta Phi sorority was the only single-sex female Greek Society that Bowdoin has had.\u00a0 It was founded in 1983 after nineteen women decided to leave a coeducational fraternity.\u00a0 They left because they felt that women received unequal treatment from the men.\u00a0 They wrote in their mission statement that they existed specifically to provide a supportive and nurturing environment.\u00a0 The group, including those who had been involved in fraternities, felt that they needed a space where women, not men, dominated the discourse, and where women could assume leadership roles.\u00a0 They promise these things in their mission statement.\u00a0 In this way the women of ABP sought to bring about some social change at Bowdoin in a way that would empower women.\u00a0 Through experience they believed that this could not occur for women through the fraternity system as it existed on campus.<\/p>\n

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