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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• Search for the word Vassar in these texts.  Also search Avery, referring to Vassar's Dr. Alida Avery

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• Search magazines and newspapers for reviews and editorials about the book.  Remember to look into the perspective of a periodical, i.e. who were its writers and editors and who was its audience.