Amalia Holst

by Andrew Cooper

Amalia Holst's trailblazing book On the Vocation of Woman to Higher Intellectual Education (1802) dropped a bomb on the German speaking states-a bomb that failed to detonate. In one of the first works of philosophy in German published under a woman's name, Holst declares that it is time a member of the female sex spoke out about the plight of women in Germany. Despite her bold attempt to ignite a new movement of women's education, her book was harshly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 100916127X
• ISBN13: 9781009161275
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages