Author: Laurie MagnusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Endowed public schools (Great Britain)
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Jubilee Book of the Girls' Public Day School Trust, 1873-1923
Author: Laurie MagnusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Endowed public schools (Great Britain)
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
Author: Carol DyhousePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136248188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Girls learn about "femininity" from childhood onwards, first through their relationships in the family, and later from their teachers and peers. Using sources which vary from diaries to Inspector’s reports, this book studies the socialization of middle- and working-class girls in late Victorian and early-Edwardian England. It traces the ways in which schooling at all social levels at this time tended to reinforce lessons in the sexual division of labour and patterns of authority between men and women, which girls had already learned at home. Considering the social anxieties that helped to shape the curriculum offered to working-class girls through the period 1870-1920, the book goes on to focus on the emergence of a social psychology of adolescent girlhood in the early-twentieth century and finally, examines the relationship between feminism and girls’ education.
Progress, Civic, Social, Industrial
Author: The Spectator
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
The Reform of Girls' Secondary and Higher Education in Victorian England
Author: Joyce Senders PedersenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351181661
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Originally published in 1987, this title was first submitted as a doctoral dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. Completed just as the years of expansion in higher education were drawing to a close, it reflects the growing doubts of the period as to the ability of formal education provision alone to effect major changes in the distribution of socio-economic privilege at the group level, whether as between the sexes, classes, or ethnic groups. Reforms in women’s education had traditionally been dealt with as a small part of the women’s emancipation movement. This book approaches the education reforms in a different way and begins with the question of which social groups participated in the movement. Seen from this point of view, a primary interest of the reforms is the function they served in promoting a redefinition of the status and roles of a social elite.
The Nineteenth-Century Woman
Author: Sara DelamontPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415623200
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This collection of papers draws on insights from social anthropology to illuminate historical material, and presents a set of closely integrated studies on the inter-connections between feminism and medical, social and educational ideas in the nineteenth century. Throughout the book evidence from both the USA and UK shows that feminists had to operate in a restricting and complex social environment in which the concept of "the lady" and the ideal of the saintly mother defined the nineteenth-century woman’s cultural and physical world.
British and American School Stories, 1910–1960
Author: Nancy G. RosoffPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030059863
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book examines school and college fiction for girls in Britain and the United States, written in the first half of the twentieth century, to explore the formation and ideologies of feminine identity. Nancy G. Rosoff and Stephanie Spencer develop a transnational framework that recognises how both constructed and essential femininities transcend national boundaries. The book discusses the significance and performance of female friendship across time and place, which is central to the development of the genre, and how it functioned as an important means of informal education. Stories by Jessie Graham Flower, Pauline Lester, Alice Ross Colver, Elinor Brent-Dyer, and Dorita Fairlie Bruce are set within their historical context and then used to explore aspects of sociability, authority, responsibility, domesticity, and possibility. The distinctiveness of this book stems from the historical analysis of these sources, which have so far primarily been treated by literary scholars within their national context. Winner of the History of Education Society Anne Bloomfield Prize for the best book on history of education published in English 2017-19
Secondary Education in England 1870-1902
Author: Prof John RoachPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1134960093
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In this comprehensive and extensively researched history, John Roach argues for a reassessment of the relative importance of State regulation and private provision. Although the public schools enjoyed their greatest prestige during this period, in terms of educational reform and progress their importance has been exaggerated. The role of the public school, he suggests, was social rather than academic, and as such their power and influence is to be interpreted principally in relation to the growth of new social elites, the concept of public service and the needs of the empire for a bureaucratic ruling class. Only in the modern progressive movement, launched by Cecil Reddie, and the private provision for young women, was lasting progress made. Even before the 1902 Education Act however the State had spent much time and effort regulating and reforming the old educational endowments, and it is in these initiatives that the foundations for the public provision of secondary educational reform are to be found.
Free and Ennobled
Author: Carol BauerPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483279197
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Free and Ennobled: Source Readings in the Development of Victorian Feminism covers the knowledge gap in the field of Victorian feminist studies. This book is the outgrowth of a college course on the Victorian Woman. This book is composed of ten chapters, and begins with an introduction to womanhood. The succeeding chapters deal with the emergence of feminism and the introduction of the Victorian Feminism movement as part of social adjustment. Other chapters are devoted to controversial issues in women's right, including education, emancipation, work, and political rights. The final chapters discuss the achievements of the Victorian Feminism movement. This book will prove useful to sociologists.
Author: Laurie Magnus