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Those good Gertrudes : a social history of women teachers in America /
Those Good Gertrudes explores the professional, civic, and personal roles of women teachers. Its voice, themes, and findings build from the mostly unpublished writings of many women and their families, colleagues, and pupils. Geraldine J. Clifford studied personal history manuscripts in archives and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. "It is well that women should be unlettered": before teaching school was "women's work"
- 2. "School dames in each quarter": America's army of Gertrudes
- 3. "A sisterhood of instruction, essential to the world's progress": societal pressures and women's opportunities, 1700-1900
- 4. "Overflowing from the domestic circle": individual and family factors in choosing to teach
- 5. "An honorable breadwinning weapon": who became teachers?
- 6. "The presiding genius of his home and heart": her marital status and domestic arrangements
- 7. "In the mind's eye": images and expectations of the teacher
- 8. "Higher prospects for a useful life": the teacher as trained professional
- 9. "Laboring conscientiously, though perhaps obscurely": certain realities of being a teacher
- 10. "The great perplexities of the teacher-life": Gertrudes talk and their pupils reminisce
- 11. "That our daughters may be as cornerstones": women teachers and messianic America
- 12. "The feast of reason and flow of soul": the political rights and civic duties of women
- 13 "A lady well qualified to show the way": widening women's work.