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Lessons for life : the schooling of girls and women, 1850-1950
- Title
- Lessons for life : the schooling of girls and women, 1850-1950 / edited by Felicity Hunt.
- Publication
- Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell, 1987.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | LC2042 .L47 1987 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Hunt, Felicity, 1951-
- Description
- xxv, 224 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- A study of girls' and women's education inside and outside the school, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It examines how ideologies of femininity influenced girls' schooling, inequality in the curriculum, and the experiences of the girls and women involved.
- Subject
- 1800-1999
- Geschichte 1900-2000
- Geschichte 1800-1900
- Women > Education > History > Great Britain > 19th century
- Women > Education > History > Great Britain > 20th century
- Educational equalization > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Educational equalization > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Educational equalization
- Women > Education
- Frauenbildung
- Mädchenbildung
- Geschichte (1850-1950)
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Part I. Ideologies in education -- Divided aims : the educational implications of opposing ideologies in girls' secondary schooling, 1850-1940 / Felicity Hunt -- Miss Buss and Miss Beale : gender and authority in the history of education / Carol Dyhouse -- The ideology of femininity and reading for girls, 1850-1914 / Deborah Gorham -- Learning through leisure : feminine ideology in girls' magazines 1920-50 / Penny Tinkler -- Part II. Inequalities in education -- Learning her womanly work : the elementary school curriculum, 1870-1914 / Annmarie Turnbull -- Inequalities in the teaching profession : the effect on teachers and pupils 1910-39 / Alison Oram -- Better a teacher than a hairdresser? "A mad passion for equality" or, keeping Molly and Betty down / Deborah Thom -- Part III. Experiences in education -- Cultural reproduction in the education of girls : a study of girls' secondary schooling in two Lancashire Towns, 1900-50 / Penny Summerfield -- Pioneer women students at Cambridge, 1869-81 / Perry Williams.
- ISBN
- 0631149759
- 9780631149750
- 0631149740
- 9780631149743
- LCCN
- 87010307
- OCLC
- ocm15654760
- 15654760
- SCSB-8921422
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library