![]() | Schooling German Girls and Women Subjects: Women -- Education (Secondary) -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Women -- Education (Higher) -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Women teachers -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Feminism -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; James Albisetti provides the first comprehensive study in any language of the development of secondary schools for girls in the various German states during the nineteenth century, and of the struggles waged by women after 1865 to gain access to higher education and the liberal professions. Through comparisons with contemporaneous developments in other European countries, he points out what was typical and what unique in the German experience in such areas as the operation and curricula of girls' schools, the opportunities for women teachers, the debates over increased educational and employment opportunities for women, and the strategies and tactics adopted by feminist organizations. |
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