| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Routledge research in gender and history ; 9 |
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Routledge research in gender and history ; 9
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| Contents |
Women, education, and agency, 1600-2000: an historical perspective / Sarah Jane Aiston -- Self-tuition and the intellectual achievement of early modern women: Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) / Barbara Bulckaert -- Women and agency: the educational legacy of Mary Wollstonecraft / Joyce Senders Pedersen -- Scientific women: their contribution to culture in England in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Ruth Watts -- Ramabai and Rokeya: the history of gendered social capital in India / Barnita Bagchi -- Russian women in European universities, 1864-1900 / Marianna Muravyeva -- "Knowledge as the necessary food of the mind": Charlotte Mason's philosophy of education / Stephanie Spencer -- A woman's challenge: the voice of Şükufe Nihal in the modernisation of Turkey / Aynur Soydan Erdemir -- Femininity and mathematics at Cambridge circa 1900 / Claire Jones -- Thinking women: international education for peace and equality, 1918-1930 / Katherine Storr -- London's feminist teachers and the urban political landscape / Jane Martin -- Feminist criminology in Britain circa 1920-1960: education, agency, and activism outside the academy / Anne Logan -- Thinking feminist in 1963: challenges from Betty Friedan and the U.S. President's Commission on the Status of Women / Linda Eisenmann -- "Enhancing the quality of the educational experience": female activists and U.S. university and college women's centres / Sylvia Ellis and Helen Mitchell |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Title from PDF title page (viewed October 2, 2009) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women -- Education -- History
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Women -- Education -- Great Britain -- History
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Feminism -- History
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Feminism -- Great Britain -- History
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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Feminism.
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Women -- Education.
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Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Spence, Jean
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Aiston, Sarah Jane
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Meikle, Maureen M
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| ISBN |
9780203882610 |
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020388261X |
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041599005X |
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9780415990059 |
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