Gender and the Modern Research University: The Admission of Women to German Higher Education, 1865-1914In 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 Mazón'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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
World of Learning | 19 |
What Will Become of Our Daughters? The Womens | 50 |
The Regulation of | 115 |
Literary Images of the First Female | 152 |
A Student Who Cant Get Drunk? Women Students | 176 |
Conclusion | 213 |
Selected Bibliography | 271 |
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