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Opening up the role of women in policy-making as a new field of study, this book takes the example of women in education as its focus. It examines the work, attitudes and actions of women in education over two centuries. Offering a new perspective on the professional and political role of women, this book represents essential reading for anybody with an interest in gender studies or the social and political history of England in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Opening up the role of women in policy-making as a new field of study, this book takes the example of women in education as its focus. It examines the work, attitudes and actions of women in education over two centuries. Offering a new perspective on the professional and political role of women, this book represents essential reading for anybody with an interest in gender studies or the social and political history of England in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Autorenporträt
Joyce Goodman is reader in the history of education at King Alfred's College, Winchester, where she is director of the Centre for Pedagogical Studies. She has published on women, education and authority, technical education for women and girls, and education, gender and colonialism. Sylvia Harrop is a senior fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Liverpool. She has written widely on the histories of adult and higher education and women's education, and is currently co-directing (with Joyce Goodman) a historical project on women and the governance of girls' secondary schools in Britain.