Monk&#x27;s biography on Wittgenstein is great. I recommend his newest one on Oppenheimer if you haven&#x27;t read it.<p>I think Monk&#x27;s point wasn&#x27;t just about gender, but also about whether the punishment was appropriate or proportionate in any case. Disrupting a class should be punishable regardless of gender, but struggling with a difficult lesson, especially one deemed unimportant for young girls at the time, is not a publishable fault. There was also the fact that Wittgenstein&#x27;s corporal punishment was particularly harsh, and on one occasion fled town when even he realised that he went too far by basically hospitalising a young girl. In later life he eventually returned to apologise, but had his apology refused.