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No small lives : handbook of North American early women adult educators, 1925-1950 /
This book contains the stories of 26 North American women who were active in the field of adult education sometime between the years of 1925 and 1950. Generally, women's contributions have been omitted from the field's histories. This book is designed to address this gap and restore women...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlotte, North Carolina :
Information Age Publishing,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Front Cover ""; ""No Small Lives""; ""Handbook of North American Early Women Adult Educators, 1925�1950""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PART I""; ""CHAPTER 1""; ""Searching for the Women in a Defeminized Past""; ""Amy D. Rose""; ""Beginnings""; ""Organizational Issues""; ""Funding Imperatives""; ""Publications""; ""Handbooks""; ""Conclusions""; ""NOTE""; ""References""; ""CHAPTER 2""; ""Adult Education History and the Issue of Gender""; ""Jane M. Hugo""; ""Women in Adult Education History""; ""Field-Sponsored Evidence of Women�s Engagement 1925�1950""
- ""Women in the Adult Education Historical Research Literature Since 1990""""Mechanisms of Women's Invisibility""; ""More Lessons From Women�s History""; ""1. The need for feminist historical scholarship continues. Much about women�s past remains unexplored. In addition, women�s history or gender history have not been mainstreamed; it is too often seen as not important except as filler in material t ... ""
- ""4. World or global history has emerged to challenge the privileged position of American or European historical narratives. There is a call to move to an approach that “focuses on international connections, facilitates comparisons, and traces person ... """"5. In the process of rewriting histories that “seemed settled or fully explored, � it�s not enough to know that women were active, but rather one needs to ask how they were active in order to surface the assumptions and premises about race, gend ... ""; ""Summary""; ""References""; ""Part II""; ""PROFILES OF 26 WOMEN""; ""CHAPTER 3""
- ""Lucy Wilcox Adams""""Susan Imel""; ""Early Years""; ""Lucy�s Years With the California Association""; ""Lucy�s Contributions to the Literature""; ""References""; ""CHAPTER 4""; ""Don�t Shush Me!""; ""Sue Adams""; ""Formative Years""; ""Early Work""; ""A Life in Libraries and Adult Education""; ""Publication and International Work""; ""Later Career""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""CHAPTER 5""; ""Nannie Helen Burroughs""; ""Opal Easter-Smith""; ""The Women�s Industrial Club""; ""The Woman�s Convention, Auxillary to the National Baptist Convention""