The woman at the piano: women, education and culture in nineteenth-century frame of reference -- The lost ladies' schools of colonial Australia -- The keystone of the arch? Women and the universities in coloial Australia -- Inventing the secondary school for girls: Brisbane Girls' Grammar School and Syndney Girls' High School, 1875-1910 -- The administration of gender: the case of Victoria's 'Lady Teachers', 1850-1900 -- The 'everyday world' of women who taught: some theoretical considerations -- Daughters fo the state: theoretical reflections on the first compulsory generations, 1870--1890 -- The schooling of outcast girls, 1860--1900
