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Author Rowold, Katharina.

Title The educated woman : minds, bodies, and women's higher education in Britain, Germany, and Spain, 1865-1914 / Katharina Rowold
Published New York : Routledge, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 311 pages)
Series Routledge research in gender and history ; 7
Routledge research in gender and history ; 7.
Contents Britain. Science, feminism, and sexual difference : moulding female nature through higher education, 1860s-1890 ; The politics of reproduction and women's higher education, 1885-1914 -- Germany. Women, Bildung, and culture, 1865-1900 ; Die akademische Frau : motherhood, race, and culture, 1890-1914 ; Masculine minds in female bodies : sexology and women's higher education, 1869-1914 -- Spain. Educated women give birth to advanced nations, 1868-1900 ; After 1898 : degeneration and regeneration
Summary Offers a comparative study of constructions of female nature in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on debates surrounding women's entry into higher education, this book explores how gender difference was negotiated in Britain, Germany and Spain
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Women scholars -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Women scholars -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Women scholars -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
Women scholars -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Women scholars -- Spain -- History -- 19th century
Women scholars -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
Education, Higher -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Education, Higher -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Education, Higher -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
Education, Higher -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Education, Higher -- Spain -- History -- 19th century
Education, Higher -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
Sex discrimination against women -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Sex discrimination against women -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Sex discrimination against women -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
Sex discrimination against women -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Sex discrimination against women -- Spain -- History -- 19th century
Sex discrimination against women -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Education, Higher
Sex discrimination against women
Women scholars
Germany
Great Britain
Spain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203860939
0203860934