Women, Education, and Agency, 1600-2000 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Spence, Jean; Meikle, Maureen M.; Aiston, Sarah

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Women, Education, and Agency 1600-2000 explores a range of topics on the history of women in eductational settings around the world, from the strategies of individuals seeking a personal education, to organized efforts of women to pursue broader feminist goals in an educational context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135855840
• Artikelnr.: 43072763

Autorenporträt

Sarah Jane Aiston is a lecturer in the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Research in Higher Education, School of Education, Durham University. She has an interest in the history of women in higher education and has recently published within this field in 20th Century British History, History of Education and Women's History Review. Maureen Meikle is a senior lecturer in early modern history in the School of Arts, Design, Media & Culture, University of Sunderland. Her research interests include early modern Scottish Women and Queen Anna of Denmark (1574-1619). She edited, with Elizabeth Ewan, Women in Scotland, c. 1100-c, 1750 (2000). Jean Spence is a lecturer in Community and Youth Work in the School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University. Her research interests include the history and practice of informal educational approaches, youth work with girls and young women, and gender relations in mining communities. She has recently published in these fields within Women's History Review; Community, Work and Family, Sociological Research Online, and Youth and Policy. She is a co-editor and contributing author to a series of collected essays published by the National Youth Agency relating to the history of Youth and Community Work.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Carol Dyhouse. Preface. 1.Women, Education and Agency, 1600-2000:
An Historical Perspective. Sarah Jane Aiston. 2. Self-Tutition and the
Intellectual Achievement of Early Modern Women: Anna Maria van Schurman
(1607-1678). Barbara Bulckaert. 3. Women and Agency: The Educational Legacy
of Mary Wollstonecraft. Joyce Senders Pedersen. 4. Scientific Women: Their
Contribution to Culture in England in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries. Ruth Watts. 5. Ramabai and Rokeya: The History of Gendered
Social Capital in India. Barnita Bagchi. 6. Russian Women in European
Universities, 1864-1900. Marianna Muravyeva. 7. 'Knowledge as the Necessary
Food of the Mind': Charlotte Mason's Philosophy of Education. Stephanie
Spencer. 8. A Woman's Challenge: The Voice of Sukufe Nihal in the
Modernisation of Turkey. Aynur Soydan Erdemir. 9. Femininity and
Mathematics at Cambridge circa 1900. Claire Jones. 10. Thinking Women:
International Education for Peace and Equality, 1918-1930. Katherine Storr.
11. London's Feminist Teachers and the Urban Political Landscape. Jane
Martin. 12. Feminist Criminology in Britain c.1920-1960: Education, Agency
and Activism outside the Academy. Anne Logan. 13. Thinking Feminist in
1963: Challenges from Betty Friedan and the U.S. President's Commission on
the Status of Women. Linda Eisenmann. 14. 'Enhancing the quality of the
educational experience': Female Activists and U.S. University and College
Women's Centres. Sylvia Ellis and Helen Mitchell. About the Editors. About
the Contributors. Index.