The "thaw": women in the popular press and university corridors, 1855-63 -- The politics of minimal concessions: women's courses in St. Petersburg and Moscow -- Russian women in Zurich: education and revolution -- Women's higher courses: a domestic safety valve -- Women doctors and the war ministry -- The bitter end: the conservative assault on higher education
Summary
Women in nineteenth-century Russia had greater access to medical and higher education than any of their contemporaries in Europe. Women's Struggle for Higher Education in Russia explores the remarkable expansion and upgrading of women's education during the turbulent decades following the Crimean War
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-144) and index
