The controversy of higher education for young women: Dr. Edward Clarke's Sex in Education (1873) and responses to it, on education's effect on the female reproductive systems. Special attention should be given to the impact on Vassar, and Vassar's responses.
Clarke, Edward Hammond. Sex in Education; Or, a Fair Chance for the Girls. Boston: J. R. Osgood & Company, 1873
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