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1 online resource (249 pages) |
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Women And Men In History |
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Women and men in history.
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of abbreviations; Glossary; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Unitarianism; Who were the Unitarians?; Unitarians and reform; Unitarians and education; PART ONE: 1760-1815; 1. The eighteenth-century context: ideas on women and their education; The structure of society and religion; Education, work and gender; Educational reformers; 2. Unitarianism and education; Priestley, Hartley and the associationist psychology; Unitarianism and associationism; A new education for both sexes; 3. Ideals into practice: Unitarians in education |
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Education at home and schoolHigher education for men; Culture and science for 'gentlemen'; Further education for women; The duties of wives; Women, philanthropy and class relations; 4. To 'loose the female mind': Unitarians and women 1760-1815; Unitarian views on womanhood; Anna Barbauld and opportunities for women; Families and female education; Unitarian networks; Mary Wollstonecraft; Radical ideas and women; PART TWO: 1816-1860; 5. The Unitarian context; Unitarianism 1816-1860; Unitarians and other Christians; Political reform -- a male concern?; The influence of Continental thinkers |
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Women in the educative community6. Schooling for Unitarians; The need to reform middle-class education; Unitarian education 1816-1860; Education at home and school; Unitarians and the reform of middle-class education; 7. Knowledge is power: gentlemen of England; Reform of higher education; Alternative higher education; Unitarians in urban culture; Women in urban culture and higher education; 8. Unitarians and education for the working class: a gendered concern?; Unitarians and education for the working classes; Sunday schools; Charity and day schools; Coeducational and infant schools |
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Mary CarpenterDomestic missions; 9. Political economy, adult education, class and gender; Political economy, mechanics' institutes and class conflict; Women and adult education; John Beard, women workers and education; Working-class women, reform movements and the domestic ideology; 10. Unitarians and gender issues in the 1850s: the seeds of feminism; Respectability and 'home duties'; Radical unitarians; The Women's Movement; Unitarian networks; Elizabeth Gaskell; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This new study explores the role the Unitarians played in female emancipation. Many leading figures of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were Unitarian, or were heavily influenced by Unitarian ideas, including: Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Florence Nightingale. Ruth Watts examines how far they were successful in challenging the ideas and social conventions affecting women. In the process she reveals the complex relationship between religion, gender, class and education and her study will be essential reading for those studying the origins of the fe |
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Print version record |
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Unitarian churches -- Education -- Social aspects -- England -- History -- 18th century
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Unitarian churches -- Education -- Social aspects -- England -- History -- 19th century
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Unitarian churches -- History -- 18th century -- Education -- England
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Unitarian churches -- History -- 19th century -- Education -- England
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Women -- Education -- History -- Women -- England
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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Unitarian churches -- Education
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England
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317888628 |
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1317888626 |
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