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Book SynopsisJames 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 o
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Illustrations, pg. ix*List of Tables, pg. xi*Preface, pg. xiii*Acknowledgments, pg. xxv*Abbreviations, pg. xxvii*ONE. The German Ideal of Womanhood and Education, pg. 3*TWO. The Rise of the Higher Girls' Schools, pg. 23*THREE. The Rise of Women Teachers to the 1870s, pg. 58*FOUR. The First Wave of Reform, 1865-1879, pg. 93*FIVE. The Petition Campaigns, 1887-1894, pg. 136*SIX. The Debate over Woman's Nature and Place, pg. 168*SEVEN. Propaganda of the Deed, pg. 204*EIGHT. The Decisive Reforms in Female Education, pg. 238*NINE. Aftermath, Comparisons, and Conclusions, pg. 274*Glossary, pg. 307*Bibliographical Note, pg. 309*Index, pg. 313
