The reginnings of higher education of women in Bohemia

This treatise deals with the subject of emancipation of Czech women in their struggle for higher education. First Part foreshadows the historic development of the position of the woman in the society from the earliest times to the end of the 18th century. Crucial is the part of the treatise describing the effort of the Czech women and men engaged in the struggle for secondary and tertiary female education. Focus is given mainly to the public school system. Private schools and associations and other institutions are mentioned marginally, in particular with regard to their importance during the subsequent evolution of the public school system. The efforts mentioned thereby are set in the social context of the region, in particular in the context of the national emancipation per se. Attention is given in part also to the conditions and circumstances of the similar struggle in the German and Jewish minorities living in the Czech lands. Finally, individual types of schools for women are dealt with, their particular organization and instruction, while pursuing their historical line up to the beginnings of the twentieth century