Gender and the Modern Research University : The Admission of Women to German Higher Education, 1865-1914 / Patricia Mazón.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mazón, Patricia, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.) : 19 illustrations

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 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:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Academic Citizenship and Masculinity in the German World of Learning

2. "What Will Become of Our Daughters?"

3. "Our Universities Are Men's Universities":

4. Selecting the "Better Elements":

5. Fraulein Doktor:

6. "A Student Who Can't Get Drunk?"

Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index of Names of Persons

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2050-6

OCLC:

1294426508