Title: Women who taught : perspectives on the history of women and teaching /
Authors: Prentice, Alison L.; Theobald, Marjorie R.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Women teachers History.
Contents: The historiography of women teachers: a retrospect / Alison Prentice and Marjorie R. Theobald -- Schoolmistresses and headmistresses: elites and education in nineteenth-century England / Joyce Senders Pedersen -- "Mere accomplishments"? Melbourne's early ladies' schools reconsidered / Marjorie R. Theobald -- "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 / Ailsa G. Thomson Zainu'ddin -- "Daughters into teachers": educational and demographic influences on the transformation of teaching into "Women's work" in America / Geraldine Jonçich Clifford -- Teachers' work: changing patterns and perceptions in the emerging school systems of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century central Canada / Marta Danylewycz and Alison Prentice.