Beschreibung:
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.
Introduction: Women's Higher Education and the Female Mind and Body. Part 1: Britain 1. Science, Feminism, and Sexual Difference: Moulding Female Nature through Higher Education, 1860s-1890 2. The Politics of Reproduction and Women's Higher Education, 1885-1914 Part 2: Germany 3. Women, Bildung, and Culture, 1865-1900 4. 'Die akademische Frau': Motherhood, Race, and Culture, 1890-1914 5. Masculine Minds in Female Bodies: Sexology and Women's Higher Education, 1869-1914 Part 3: Spain 6. Educated Women Give Birth to Advanced Nations, 1868-1900 7. After 1898: Degeneration and Regeneration. Conclusion.