Unstoppable : Norwegian Pioneers Educate Their Daughters /

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"When Lutheran church leaders came from Norway in the middle of the nineteenth century, educational plans for each gender were based on deeply held beliefs about what a man was and what a woman was. Teenage boys were to be educated at a school away from home--Luther College for those in the Nor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grindal, Gracia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Lutheran University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.
Lutheran Ladies' Seminary (Red Wing, Minn.)
Luther College (Decorah, Iowa)
Luther College (Decorah, Iowa) > History.
Lutheran Ladies' Seminary (Red Wing, Minn.) > History.
Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of America > History.
Women in the Lutheran Church.
Women > Education.
Norwegian Americans.
Femmes dans l'Église lutherienne.
Americains d'origine norvegienne > Histoire.
Femmes > Éducation > États-Unis > 20e siecle.
Femmes > Éducation > États-Unis > 19e siecle.
Norwegian Americans > History.
Women > Education > United States > 20th century.
Women > Education > United States > 19th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The beginnings
  • Katie and Martin Luther
  • Learning the vocation of pastor's wife in Norway
  • Outside contemporary influences on the education of women
  • Building schools that served both men and women
  • Comitia Dumriana: assembly of the silly fair ones
  • Lutheran Ladies' Seminary at Red Wing, Minnesota
  • Getting women the vote in church
  • Co-education at Luther College.

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