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How Flora Got Her Cap: The Higher Education of Women in Edinburgh (2009)

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Science education and teaching Societies; institutions; academies Women in medicine Social aspects of education 19th century Scotland University of Edinburgh

The Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women (EAUEW) was an association providing women with higher education in a time when they were denied access to the Scottish universities. The article will give an outline of its history before assessing the performance of its mathematical class. This article is based on a lecture given at the History Splinter Group at the British Mathematical Colloquium in York, March 2008.

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Authors & Contributors
Rayner-Canham, Geoff
Rayner-Canham, Marelene
Walbaum, Sharlene D.
Jenkins, Bill
Wandersee, James H.
Thomson, Elaine
Journals
Science and Education
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Journal of the History of Collections
Journal of the History of Biology
Publishers
York University (Canada)
Rodopi
Edinburgh University Press
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Concepts
Science education and teaching
Social aspects of education
Medical education and teaching
Geology
Women in medicine
Medicine
People
Bennett, John Hughes
Pechey, Mary Edith
Carnegie, Susan
Brown, Alexander Crum
Wundt, Wilhelm Max
Jameson, Robert
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, early
Enlightenment
20th century, late
Places
Scotland
Great Britain
Edinburgh
Glasgow (Scotland)
Leipzig (Germany)
Argentina
Institutions
University of Edinburgh
University of Glasgow
Polytechnic Touring Association
University Marine Biological Station Millport
Edinburgh Physiological Society
University of St. Andrews
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