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The educated woman: minds, bodies, and women's higher education in Britain, Germany, and Spain, 1865-1914

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge research in gender and history ; v. 7Publication details: 2009 Routledge New YorkDescription: x, 311 ppISBN:
  • 9780415205870
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.4337834 R6E2
Summary: The Educated Woman is a comparative study of the ideas on female nature that informed debates on womenDshighereducationinthelatenineteenthandearlytwentiethcenturiesinthreewesternEuropeancountries.Exploringthemulti-layeredrolesofscienceandmedicineinconstructionsofsexualdifferenceinthesedebates,thebookalsopaysattentiontothevarietyofwaysinwhichcontemporaryfeministsnegotiatedandreconstitutedconceptionsofthefemalemindanditsrelationshiptothebody.Whilerecognisingsimilarities,RowoldshowshowineachcountrythehighereducationdebatesandtheunderlyingconceptionsofwomenDsnaturewereshapedbydistincthistoricalcontexts.(http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415205870/)
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The Educated Woman is a comparative study of the ideas on female nature that informed debates on womenDshighereducationinthelatenineteenthandearlytwentiethcenturiesinthreewesternEuropeancountries.Exploringthemulti-layeredrolesofscienceandmedicineinconstructionsofsexualdifferenceinthesedebates,thebookalsopaysattentiontothevarietyofwaysinwhichcontemporaryfeministsnegotiatedandreconstitutedconceptionsofthefemalemindanditsrelationshiptothebody.Whilerecognisingsimilarities,RowoldshowshowineachcountrythehighereducationdebatesandtheunderlyingconceptionsofwomenDsnaturewereshapedbydistincthistoricalcontexts.(http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415205870/)

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