The Education Papers
1st Edition
Published on 20. October 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
374 pages
978-0-415-60636-3 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1987, this volume makes available key documents, giving the contemporary reader a valuble record of women's struggle for eduacation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. All of the women in this collection achieved significant reforms or struggled to change popular prejudices about women's education
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Professional
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
690 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-60636-3 (9780415606363)
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Person
Dale Spender
Content
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Mental Differences between Men and Women, George J. Romanes; Chapter 3 Founding of Queen's College; Chapter 4 An American School, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon; Chapter 5 The Education of Women, and how it would be Affected by University Examinations, Frances Power Cobbe; Chapter 6 On the Education of Pauper Girls, Mary Carpenter; Chapter 7 Endowed Schools, Jessie Boucherett; Chapter 8 The Education and Employment of Women, Josephine Butler; Chapter 9 Letter to the Mayor of Liverpool; Chapter 10 Letter to Mr Bryce on Examinations for Governesses; Chapter 11 Special Systems of Education for Women, Emily Davies; Chapter 12 Home and the Higher Education; Chapter 13 Address to the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, Dorothea Beale; Chapter 14 Evidence to the Schools Inquiry Commission, Frances Buss; Chapter 15 From Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science; Chapter 16 From Principles of Education, Elizabeth Sewell; Chapter 17 The Education of Girls, its Present and its Future, Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy; Chapter 18 On the Special Requirements for Improving the Education of Girls, Maria Grey; Chapter 19 Are we to have Education for our Middle-Class Girls?, Maria Gurney; Chapter 20 The Work of the National Union, Emily A. E. Shirreff; Chapter 21 On the Education of Girls of the Middle Classes, Isabella M. S. Tod; Chapter 22 The Joint Education of Young Men and Women in American Schools and Colleges, Mary E. Beedy; Chapter 23 The Medical Education of Women, Sophia Jex-Blake; Chapter 24 An Interior View of Girton College, Cambridge*The following account of Girton College was written for an American Journal by an American lady who was herself for a time a Student of the College. It is reprinted, with the writer's permission, for English readers, as giving a picture of the internal life of an institution still very imperfectly known in our own country. - E.D., E.T.M.; Chapter 25 The Physical Education of Women, V. Sturge; Chapter 26 Women's Progress in Scholarship, Anne Jemima Clough; Chapter 27 Altissima Peto, Millicent Garrett Fawcett; Chapter 28 Home Management, Wilena Hitching; Chapter 29 Home Arts, Margaret A. Gilliland; Chapter 30 Home Science, L. M. Faithfull; Chapter 31 Higher Education and Marriage, B. L. Hutchins; Chapter 32 Letter to the Editor of the Times on Militant Suffragettes, Sir Almroth Wright;