Gender and the Modern Research University - The Admission of Women to German Higher Education, 1865-1914 (Hardcover, New)

In the 1890s, German feminists fighting for female higher education envied American women their small colleges. Yet by 1910, German women could study at any German university, a level of educational access not reached by American women until the 1960s. This book investigates this development as well as the cultural significance of the tremendous debate generated by aspiring female students. Central to Mazon's analysis is the concept of academic citizenship, a complex discourse permeating German student life. Shaped by this ideal, the student years were a crucial stage in the formation of masculine identity in the educated middle class, and a female student was unthinkable. Only by emphasizing the need for female gynecologists and teachers did the women's movement carve out a niche for academic women. Because the nineteenth-century German university was the model for the modern research university, the controversy resonates with contemporary American debates surrounding multiculturalism and higher education.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2003
First published:	2003
Authors:	Patricia Mazon
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages:	336
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-4641-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Universities / polytechnics Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	0-8047-4641-9
Barcode:	9780804746410

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