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| Format | Dissertation |
|---|---|
| Creator | Etges, Andreas |
| Title | Equality and Education: Mathilde Franziska Anneke's Toechter-Institut in Milwaukee and Her Fight for Women's Rights |
| Dissertation Note (type -- academic institution) | MS thesis |
| Extent of Work | 55 pp. |
| Abstract | The few existing studies on Anneke have mainly focussed on her suffrage activities, on her literary work, and on her involvement in the German Revolution of 1848. Her role as an educator of women has been rather neglected, even though she headed a girls' school in Milwaukee for the last 18 years of her life. The "Toechter-Institut" remained a unique experiment. In Anneke's view for women to become equal on an individual level they needed an equal education. But only if they were politically equal as well, would they attain equal opportunities. Anneke's fight for women's rights and her school in Milwaukee cannot be analyzed independent of each other. In this thesis Andreas Etges first gives a biographical sketch of Anneke's activities up to 1865, the year the school opened. After a general outline of the school situation in Milwaukee, the "Toechter-Institut" is described in detail with special emphasis on the social profile of the students. Next Anneke's theory of education is compared to that of Catherine Beecher, as well as other German-American educators and the program of the "Hamburger Hochschule fuer das Weibliche Geschlecht" (Women's College), a reform school at the time of the German revolution |
| Call Number | MKI P96-9 |
| MKI Terms | Anneke, Mathilde Franziska, 1817-1884/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Feminists/ Education/ Women |