Women Who Taught : : Perspectives on the History of Women and Teaching /

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

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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 als...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (301 p.)
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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

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