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In this thoroughly researched and convincingly argued text, Sotiropoulos (Modern Languages, Northern Michigan University) provides a comprehensive study of the debates surrounding women's education and struggle for equality in late-18th-century Europe. The author examines Rousseau's view that women required solely domestic education as the central claim of a wide-ranging debate. The reformers she studies, including Sophia van La Roche, Catherine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft, Theodor von Hippel, Amalia Holst, and Betty Gleim, produced various types of works such as periodicals, manifestos, curricula, commissioned plans, and fictional letters agitating for equality. Sotiropoulos's treatment of these rich sources is particularly skilled. While modestly claiming not to be the "'whole story' about late-eighteenth century women's education," Sotiropoulos's extensive study nevertheless offers great insight into just "how women's needs were perceived." Attention to her readers' needs is evident throughout the book, notably with the indispensable historical summaries to each of the major chapters. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above. --S. L. Hogland, SUNY at Stony Brook, Choice, December 2007.