Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education

Description: 'Tells a story of extraordinary courage and appalling discrimination ... Bluestockings is The History Boys for women' Sunday Times In 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. Doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs would wither and die. When the Cambridge Senate held a vote on whether women students should be allowed official membership of the university, there was a full-scale riot. Despite the prejudice and the terrible sacrifices they faced, women from all backgrounds persevered and paved the way for the generations who have followed them since. By the 1920s, being an 'undergraduette' was considered quite the fashionable thing; by the 1930s, women were emerging from universities as anything from aviation engineers to professional academics. Bluestockings tells an inspiring story - of defiance and determination, of colourful eccentricity and at times heartbreaking loneliness, as well as of passionate friendships, midnight cocoa-parties and glorious self-discovery.

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EAN: 9780141029719

UPC: 9780141029719

ISBN: 9780141029719

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Book Title: Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First W

Item Length: 19.8 cm

Number of Pages: 304 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Bluestockings: the Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Publication Year: 2010

Subject: Coaching & Career Guidance, Education, Zoology, History

Item Height: 198 mm

Item Weight: 236 g

Type: Textbook

Author: Jane Robinson

Item Width: 129 mm

Format: Paperback