The first English translation of Amalia Holst's daring manifesto for women's education, originally published in 1802. It centres on a basic provocation: as far as the mind is concerned, women are equal partakers in the project of Enlightenment, and should thus have unfettered access to the sciences in general and to philosophy in particular.

Andrew Cooper is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is author of The Tragedy of Philosophy: Kant's Critique of Judgment and the Project of Aesthetics (2016) and Kant and the Transformation of Natural History (2023), and has published numerous articles on Kant, post-Kantian philosophy, and philosophy of science.

• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• Note on Translation


• On The Vocation of Woman to Higher Intellectual Education


• Preface


• 1: Does Higher Education of the Mind Contradict the Proximate Calling of Woman as Wife, Mother, and Housewife?


• 2: Woman Considered as Wife


• 3: The Educated Woman as Mother


• 4: The Educated Woman as Housewife


• 5: On the Education of Woman in the Unmarried State


• Appendix 1: Biographical References


• Appendix 2: Reviews of Holst's Work


• Bibliography