Books about Fraternities and Sororities

[AZTheta]

Bound By a Mighty Vow: Sisterhood and Women's Fraternities, 1870-1920, Diana B. Turk.

Highly recommended.

[IrishLake]

Originally Posted by AzTheta

Bound By a Mighty Vow: Sisterhood and Women's Fraternities, 1870-1920, Diana B. Turk.

Highly recommended.

Ditto. And I won't even donate my copy of "Pledged" to the library. It's sitting dusty on my bookshelf. The fewer in circulation, the better.

[33girl]

I wouldn't recommend anything by Hank Nuwer. His fact-checking methods are spotty at best. I've had to email his website several times because he had incorrect facts on it.

Not only that, he's a publicity whore.

[carnation]

For southern PNMs and maybe for others: Sorority Guide, Everything You Need to Know From Alpha to Zeta- by Ceil Howle and Anna Stephens.

[exlurker]

Going Greek: Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895 – 1945 by Marianne R. Sanua (2003, Wayne State University Press)

Recommended. Includes material regarding historically Jewish sororities, too.

+++++++++

Inside Greek U:
Fraternities, Sororities, and the Pursuit of Pleasure, Power, and Prestige
By Alan D. Desantis
Year Published: 2007

Might be worth checking out reviews of this one before buying it. Not bad, but not outstanding, either, IMO.

[LucyKKG]

Originally Posted by carnation

For southern PNMs and maybe for others: Sorority Guide, Everything You Need to Know From Alpha to Zeta- by Ceil Howle and Anna Stephens.

Shouldn't it be from "Alpha to Omega"? That reminds me of a class I've subbed for a couple of times. The 6th graders are covering Greece in their ancient history section. They're making a book about everything they've learned, and it's called "Greek ABC Book." Hehehe...

[naraht]

Originally Posted by LucyKKG

Shouldn't it be from "Alpha to Omega"? That reminds me of a class I've subbed for a couple of times. The 6th graders are covering Greece in their ancient history section. They're making a book about everything they've learned, and it's called "Greek ABC Book." Hehehe...

It should be... But
http://www.sororityguide.com/

[AZ-AlphaXi]

Originally Posted by LucyKKG

Shouldn't it be from "Alpha to Omega"? That reminds me of a class I've subbed for a couple of times. The 6th graders are covering Greece in their ancient history section. They're making a book about everything they've learned, and it's called "Greek ABC Book." Hehehe...

Or maybe it only has 6 things to say (Alpha to Zeta is 6 letters)

[naraht]

Originally Posted by AZ-AlphaXi

Or maybe it only has 6 things to say (Alpha to Zeta is 6 letters)

Oddly enough, though with the distribution of the sororities in the NPC, "Alpha to Zeta" takes up more than half (15 of 26) of the sororities. There are 9 that start with Alpha, Gamma Phi Beta, 4 with Delta and Zeta Tau Alpha. For the other three "quadrants": "Eta to Mu" has 4, Theta Phi Alpha andthe 3 that start with Kappa; "Nu to Sigma" has 4, Pi Beta Phi and the three that start with Sigma and "Tau to Omega" has Phi Mu, Phi Sigma Sigma and Chi Omega.

I never realized that there are more sororities in the NPC starting with Alpha than with the entire second half of the greek alphabeta.

Note, I tried contacting them by email and through the sales phone number. The emails bounced and the sales number went to voicemail without any info. I guess not enough people bought the book.