Struggling for girls’ education: coalition strategies of Norwegian and German women’s rights activists in comparative-historical perspective

• Katharina Sass ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Bergen

     University of Bergen

     Noruega

     
• Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 60, Nº. 3, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Researching Narratives in History of Education), págs. 474-493
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  • This paper explores how girls’ education developed in Norwayand Prussia (and later North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW) during thefirst and second wave of women’s political mobilisation. It analyses how organisations and activists of the women’s movementwere included in different cross-interest coalitions in educationpolitics. The cases are interpreted in light of Rokkanian cleavagetheory. In Germany, the women’s movement was split alongclass lines but also along denominational lines. The Catholicwomen’s movement became a part of the Catholic and laterthe Christian democratic political alliance. In Norway, influentialsections of the women’s movement were linked first to theliberal movement and later to the social democratic movement.In both cases, women’s rights activists left a mark on educationpolicy, but Norwegian women’s rights activists enjoyed successes earlier and more consistently. This is a result of theNorwegian women’s movement’s comparatively greater unityand related to the different cleavage structures.