1. The woman at the piano: women, education and culture in the
nineteenth-century frame of reference; 2. The lost ladies' schools of
colonial Australia; 3. The keystone of the arch? Women and the universities
in colonial Australia; 4. Inventing the secondary school for girls:
Brisbane Girls' Grammar School and Sydney Girls' High School; 5. The
administration of gender: the case of Victoria's lady teachers, 1850-1900;
6. The everyday world of women who taught: some theoretical considerations;
7. Daughters of the state: the first compulsory generations, 1870-1890; 8.
The schooling of outcast girls; 9. Notes on writing the history of women's
education.
