Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-304) and index.
Contents
Window on women's education I: Germany to 1780 -- Accommodating voices: Sophie von La Roche -- Window on women's education II: France -- The national classroom: Talleyrand & Condorcet -- Mothering the state: French petitioners -- Window on women's education III: England -- Narratives of miseducation: Catharine Macaulay and Mary Wollstonecraft -- Window on women's education IV: Germany 1780-1810 -- Colloquies and consequences: Theodor von Hippel -- Professionalizing maternal educators: Amalia Holst and Betty Gleim.