Research Catalog

Title

Women and schooling in France, 1815-1914 : gender, authority, and identity in the female schooling sector / Sharif Gemie.

Author

Gemie, Sharif.

Publication

Keele, Staffordshire : Keele University Press, 1995.

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Details

Description

240 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"Nineteenth-century French schoolmistresses were pioneering women working in a man's world; 'private' beings entering the 'public' world of politics, rationality and power. This highly original study of gender and French popular education during the nineteenth century is a cultural and social history of their work and experiences which not only reveals their hidden lives, but also much about the nature of authority structures and gender relations in French society. In addition, it provides a critical perspective on the difficulties currently experienced by women entering public life."--BOOK JACKET. "Dr. Gemie uses an accessible style and documentary base to link the topic of female teachers with the wider political topic of women's entry into the public sphere and political structures. His analysis covers a broad time period and draws on personal documents - such as over 200 schoolmistresses' letters and inspectors' reports - as well as institutional records; the discussion of recent works by feminists and modern political philosophers adds to the wide appeal of this work."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• 1800-1999
• Women > Education > History > France > 19th century
• Women > Education > History > France > 20th century
• Women teachers > Training of > History > France > 19th century
• Women teachers > Training of > History > France > 20th century
• Women > Education
• Women teachers > Training of
• Geschichte
• Lehrerinnenbildung
• Mädchenbildung
• Mädchenschule
• Vrouwen
• Leerkrachten
• Women teachers > France > History
• Women in education > France
• Geschichte 1815-1914
• France
• Frankreich

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-237) and index.

Contents

Acknowledgements (starting p. 7) -- Abbreviations and Specialist Terms (starting p. 8) -- 1 Introduction (starting p. 9) -- i Listening to the Woman in the Wall (starting p. 11) -- ii Social History and the History of Schooling (starting p. 17) -- iii The Development of Schooling (starting p. 19) -- iv Limits to Study (starting p. 26) -- v Methodology and Politics: Habermas and the Public Sphere (starting p. 27) -- 2 State, Schooling and Gender: Questions of Political Culture (starting p. 33) -- i The State and the Politics of Reason (starting p. 34) -- ii Educators and Schoolmistresses (starting p. 39) -- iii Moral Community (starting p. 46) -- iv Constructing a School (starting p. 49) -- 3 Schooling and Female Identity (starting p. 55) -- i The Nature of the State (starting p. 55) -- ii The Politics of Femininity (starting p. 59) -- iii Femininity and Schooling: A Survey of Contemporary Literature (starting p. 67) -- iv Femininity and Schooling: the Debates (starting p. 69) -- 4 Teaching the Teachers I: Leaving the Cours Normaux (starting p. 79) -- i The Development of Teacher Training (starting p. 79) -- ii The Cours Normaux Defended (starting p. 86) -- iii The Critique of the Cours Normaux (starting p. 90) -- 5 Teaching the Teachers II: Building the Ecoles Normales (starting p. 95) -- i Ideals and Regulations (starting p. 97) -- ii Constructing the Republican Schoolmistress (starting p. 102) -- iii Subculture (starting p. 105) -- iv Rebellion (starting p. 109) -- 6 Lives, Loves and Administration (starting p. 117) -- i Careers and Marriages (starting p. 117) -- ii Finding a Place (starting p. 123) -- iii Administrative Policies (starting p. 127) -- iv Administrators and Teachers (starting p. 130) -- v Teachers and Administrators (starting p. 134) -- vi Teaching Experiences (starting p. 139) -- 7 'Our Children, Her School': The Schoolmistress, Politics and the People (starting p. 149) -- i The Schoolmistress and Politics (starting p. 149) -- ii The Schoolmistress and Her Critics (starting p. 157) -- iii The Contents of the Petitions (starting p. 164) -- iv Administrative Responses (starting p. 170) -- 8 Conclusion: Marianne as Schoolmistress? (starting p. 175) -- App A Student's Diary (starting p. 181) -- Notes (starting p. 197) -- Bibliography (starting p. 225) -- Index (starting p. 239)

ISBN

• 1853311510
• 9781853311512

LCCN

96143876

OCLC

• ocm33270301
• 33270301
• SCSB-8921366

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library