A Year of Creativity by Brenda Mallon

A Year of Creativity by Brenda Mallon

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 Maz n'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.

Mallon, Brenda: - Brenda Mallon is an independent practitioner and author of Dying, Death and Grief (2008).

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ISBN 13	9780740730177
ISBN 10	0740730177
Title	A Year of Creativity
Author	Brenda Mallon
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Andrews McMeel Publishing
Year published	2003-04-02
Number of pages	256
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