While surfing through some early volumes (1890-1895) of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, I stumbled across the following announcement for a Berlin set of a dozen public courses to be held by distinguished scholars (of course the courses would have been offered in German, but it is handy here to have everything translated).
What simply caught my eye is highlighted below in boldface.
My question to anyone who sees this: what do you think was meant by putting the quotation marks around others, including educated women beyond of course indicating that this was an exact translation from the announcement? Was it a serious “Look, they let women attend!” or perhaps an ironic statement “Note, there must be no women lawyers, clergy, teachers, public officials, or journalists!” or worse still “What, women can attend?”
Please add your opinions below to the comments section.
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Notes
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THE GERMAN VEREIN FÜR SOZIALPOLITIK decided on the 17th of March of this year to organize a vacation course of lectures in Political and Social Science, to be held in the buildings of the University of Berlin from the 30th of September to the 12th of October. The people for whom these lectures are primarily intended are lawyers, clergymen, teachers, public officials of all classes, journalists, and “others, including educated women.” Twelve courses of six lectures each have been arranged. The price of an inclusive ticket has been fixed at 25 marks; the price for any one week for all lectures given in that week at 15 marks, and for the single course of six lectures at 3 marks.
Professor Conrad, of the University of Halle, will give one course on “Population, Colonies and Emigration ;”
Professor v. Miaskowski, of Leipsic, on “The Establishment, Preservation and Extension of the German Peasant Class;”
Professor v. Philippovich, of Vienna, on “Recent Commercial Policy;”
Professor Brentano, of Munich, on “The Wages Question;”
Professor Knapp, of Strassburg, on “Money ;”
Professor Neumann, of Tübingen, on “Finance;”
Professor Sering, of Berlin, on “Agriculture;”
Professor Bücher, of Leipsic, on “Modern Industry;”
Professor Wagner, of Berlin, on “Private Property;”
Professor Elster, of Breslau, on “Social Problems of the Modern State;”
Dr. Oldenberg, of Berlin, on “History and Theory of the Social Democracy;”
Professor Schmoller, of Berlin, on “Social Classes and Social Struggles.”
Source: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Vol. 6 (July, 1895), pp. 163-164.
Image Source: Playbill for The New Woman (1894) by Sydney Grundy. From the Sally Fox Collection. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.