Description
| Product ID: | 9781138878198 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Gender and History |
| Title: | The Educated Woman |
| Subtitle: | Minds, Bodies, and Women's Higher Education in Britain, Germany, and Spain, 1865-1914 |
| Authors: | Author: Katharina Rowold |
| Page Count: | 322 |
| Subjects: | Regional / International studies, Regional studies, History, Cultural studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Philosophy and theory of education, Humanities, Cultural studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Philosophy & theory of education |
| Description: | This book is a fascinating comparative study of constructions of female nature in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on debates surrounding women's entry into higher education, it explores how gender difference was negotiated in Britain, Germany and Spain. The Educated Woman is a comparative study of the ideas on female nature that informed debates on women’s higher education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in three western European countries. Exploring the multi-layered roles of science and medicine in constructions of sexual difference in these debates, the book also pays attention to the variety of ways in which contemporary feminists negotiated and reconstituted conceptions of the female mind and its relationship to the body. While recognising similarities, Rowold shows how in each country the higher education debates and the underlying conceptions of women’s nature were shaped by distinct historical contexts. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-12-01 |
