Women Who Taught : : Perspectives on the History of Women and Teaching / / ed. by Alison Prentice, Marjorie Theobald.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Clifford, Geraldine Jonçich,; Danylewycz, Marta,; Gelman, Susan,; King, Sarah,; Palmieri, Patricia A.,; Pedersen, Joyce Senders,; Prentice, Alison,; Selleck, R.J.W.,; Theobald, Marjorie R.,; Wilson, J. Donald,; Zainu\x27ddin, Ailsa G. Thomson,
• HerausgeberIn: Prentice, Alison,; Theobald, Marjorie,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (301 p.)

In an era when women are moving into so many areas of the labour force, we all remember some of the first working women we ever encountered: 'women teachers,' as they were too often known. The impact of women on education has been enourmous throughout the English-speaking world. It has also been ignored, for the most part, by mainstream historians of education. Alison Prentice and Marjorie R. Theobald have addressed this omission by bringing together a wide range of essays by feminist historians on the role of women in education at all levels, in Canada, Australia, Britain, and the United States.All the essays were ground-breaking when first published. Among the subjects they explore are the experience of women in private, or domestic, schooling and the rigours of teaching as single women in remote areas. Other essays discuss the impact on women's working schools in the nineteenth century; the growth of professional teachers' organizations; and the blurring of public and private in the lives of twentieth-century teachers.The editors provide an introduction that traces the growth of the emerging field of the history of women in teaching and identifies new directions currently developing. A bibliography offers further resources.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- The Historiography of Women Teachers: A Retrospect -- Women Teaching in the Private Sphere -- Schoolmistresses and Headmistresses: Elites and Education in Nineteenth-Century England -- 'Mere Accomplishments'? Melbourne's Early Ladies' Schools Reconsidered -- 'The poor widow, the ignoramus and the humbug': An Examination of Rhetoric and Reality in Victoria's 1905 Act for the Registration of Teachers and Schools -- Women Teaching in the Public Sphere -- 'Daughters into Teachers': Educational and Demographic Influences on the Transformation of Teaching into 'Women's Work' in America -- Teachers' Work: Changing Patterns and Perceptions in the Emerging School Systems of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Central Canada -- Mary Helena Stark: The Troubles of a Nineteenth-Century State School Teacher -- Feminists in Teaching: The National Union of Women Teachers, 1920-1945 -- 'I am ready to be of assistance when I can': Lottie Bowron and Rural Women Teachers in British Columbia -- Women Teaching in Higher Education -- Here Was Fellowship: A Social Portrait of Academic Women at Wellesley College, 1895-1920 -- Scholarly Passion: Two Persons Who Caught It -- Selected Bibliography