jw
2009-05-24 10:38:07
(4) Mariecurie:
“John Stuart Mill and Mary Wollstonecraft speak to the desire of women to receive the same education as men (in those days, only men could attend university).”
John Stuart Mill was speaking of the situation in Great Britain, not the United States. The first coed college in the U.S. was, I believe, Oberlin, founded as such in 1832. Swarthmore was founded as coed in 1865. Some women’s colleges, like Mt. Holyoke, were founded in the 1830s, I believe.
Mary Wollstencroft was writing in the late 18th century, I believe, and there was no issue about higher education then.
