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The Educated Woman: Minds, Bodies, and Women's Higher Education in Britain, Germany, and Spain, 1865-1914

This monograph, involving an unusual combination of countries, required the generation of comparative critical insights into the multi-layered roles of medical and scientific theories in feminist and anti-feminist discourses – produced by members of the women's movements, gynaecologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, evolutionary biologists, eugenicists, sexologists, philosophers, radical nationalists, and members of the clergy. This depended on a lengthy period of primary source collection from eighteen libraries and archives in five countries (UK, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, and USA), analysis of sources in three languages (English, German and Spanish) and engagement with three different national contexts, historiographies, and historiographical preoccupations.