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Women who taught : perspectives on the history of women and teaching /

In an era when women are moving into so many areas of the labour force, we all remember some of the first working women we ever encountered: 'women teachers, ' as they were too often known. The impact of women on education has been enourmous throughout the English-speaking world. It has al...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Prentice, Alison L., Theobald, Marjorie R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©1991.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The historiography of women teachers: a retrospect / Alison Prentice and Marjorie R. Theobald
  • Schoolmistresses and headmistresses: elites and education in nineteenth-century England / Joyce Senders Pedersen
  • "Mere accomplishments"? Melbourne's early ladies' schools reconsidered / Marjorie R. Theobald
  • "The poor widow, the ignoramus and the humbug": an examination of rhetoric and reality in Victoria's 1905 Act for the Registration of Teachers and Schools / Ailsa G. Thomson Zainu'ddin
  • "Daughters into teachers": educational and demographic influences on the transformation of teaching into "Women's work" in America / Geraldine Jonçich Clifford
  • Teachers' work: changing patterns and perceptions in the emerging school systems of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century central Canada / Marta Danylewycz and Alison Prentice.
  • Mary Helena Stark: the troubles of a nineteenth-century state school teacher / R.J.W. Selleck
  • Feminists in teaching: the National Union of Women Teachers, 1920-1945 / Sarah King
  • "I am ready to be of assistance when I can": Lottie Bowron and rural women teachers in British Columbia / J. Donald Wilson
  • Here was fellowship: a social portrait of academic women at Wellesley College, 1895-1920 / Patricia A. Palmieri
  • Scholarly passion: two persons who caught it / Alison Prentice.