Educated Woman

Katharina Rowold is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at London Metropolitan University.

'...this book is an impressive piece of work. By examining scientific and medical theories about women’s higher education, Katharina Rowold illuminates two key themes. In the first place, she shows how social Darwinist and eugenic thought was shaped and reshaped by different national contexts – and how this process helped to frame debates about the admission of women to university. Second, she explores how both those in favour and those against the higher education of women drew on the rhetoric of science to articulate their arguments.' - William Whyte, University of Oxford, UK'The Educated Woman is a valuable and thoroughly researched study that illuminates the interaction of numerous different strands – the scientific, the medical, the religious, the political – within specific national contexts and particular historical moments on this important topic.' - Lesley A. Hall, Wellcome Library, UK

• Introduction: Women’s Higher Education and the Female Mind and Body. Part 1: Britain 1. Science, Feminism, and Sexual Difference: Moulding Female Nature through Higher Education, 1860s–1890 2. The Politics of Reproduction and Women’s Higher Education, 1885–1914 Part 2: Germany 3. Women, Bildung, and Culture, 1865–1900 4. ‘Die akademische Frau’: Motherhood, Race, and Culture, 1890–1914 5. Masculine Minds in Female Bodies: Sexology and Women’s Higher Education, 1869–1914 Part 3: Spain 6. Educated Women Give Birth to Advanced Nations, 1868–1900 7. After 1898: Degeneration and Regeneration. Conclusion.