Striving for Recognition: The First Five Female Professors in Italy (1887-1904)

Autor/in	Polenghi, Simonetta
Titel	Striving for Recognition: The First Five Female Professors in Italy (1887-1904)
Quelle	In: Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 56 (2020) 6, S.748-768 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Polenghi, Simonetta)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0030-9230
DOI	10.1080/00309230.2019.1690008
Schlagwörter	Professional Recognition; College Faculty; Women Faculty; Females; Equal Opportunities (Jobs); Catholics; Family Work Relationship; Pathology; German Literature; Anatomy; Physiology; Laws; Anthropology; Intellectual Disciplines; Archives; Marital Status; Decision Making; Feminism; Propaganda; Womens Education; Higher Education; Educational History; Foreign Countries; Gender Differences; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fakultät; Frauenakademie; Weibliche Gelehrte; Weibliches Geschlecht; Equal opportunity; Equal opportunities; Job; Jobs; Chancengleichheit; Beruf; Katholik; Pathologie; Deutsche literatur; Anatomie; Physiologie; Law; Recht; Anthropologie; Geisteswissenschaften; Archivwesen; Archiv; Familienstand; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Feminismus; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Ausland; Geschlechterkonflikt; Italien
Abstract	Italy opened the doors of its universities to female students in 1875. The general view was that very few women were clever enough to obtain a degree, so they would not threaten social stability. Female professors would be even rarer -- a few exceptional "male" women. Access to the professions was impossible in the case of the legal profession, or limited in terms of medicine. In this context, where both Catholics and Positivists opposed women's careers, seeing them as incompatible with motherhood and marriage, five women managed to enter the academic world as unsalaried lecturers: Giuseppina Cattani (1887, Pathology), Paolina Schiff (1891/1893, German literature and language), Rina Monti (1899, Anatomy and Comparative Physiology), Teresa Labriola (1901, Philosophy of Law) and Maria Montessori (1904, Anthropology). With archival documents and other contemporary texts, this paper reconstructs who these women were and the many difficulties they faced in academic life. Four of them were emancipationists and did not marry. These choices debarred them from pursuing a full academic career. Only Monti, who had a family and took no active part in female propaganda, managed to become a full professor in 1911, the first woman in Italy to do so. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01