| Description |
1 online resource (312 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women teachers -- History
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Women teachers.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Theobald, Marjorie
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| ISBN |
9781442683570 |
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1442683570 |
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