Women, education, and agency, 1600-2000
By: edited by Jean Spence, Sarah Jane Aiston, Maureen M. Meikle.
Contributors: Spence, Jean.; Aiston, Sarah Jane.; Meikle, Maureen M.
Series: Routledge research in gender and history
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780415990059; 9780203882610
Subjects: Women -- Education -- History; Women -- Education -- Great Britain -- History; Feminism -- History; Feminism -- Great Britain -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Women, education, and agency, 1600-2000: an historical perspective / by Sarah Jane Aiston; title: Self-tutition and the intellectual achievement of early modern women: Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) / by Barbara Bulckaert; title: Women and agency: the educational legacy of Mary Wollstonecraft / by Joyce Senders Pedersen; title: Scientific women: their contribution to culture in England in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / by Ruth Watts; title: Ramabai and Rokeya: the history of gendered social capital in India / by Barnita Bagchi; title: Russian women in European universities, 1864-1900  / by Marianna Muravyeva; title: "Knowledge as the necessary food of the mind": Charlotte Mason's philosophy of education / by Stephanie Spencer; title: A woman's challenge: the voice of Sukufe Nihal in the modernisation of Turkey  / by Aynur Soydan Erdemir; title: Femininity and mathematics at Cambridge, circa 1900 / by Claire Jones; title: Thinking women: international education for peace and equality, 1918-1930  / by Katherine Storr; title: London's feminist teachers and the urban political landscape  / by Jane Martin; title: Feminist criminology in Britain, c.1920-1960: education, agency, and activism outside the academy / by Anne Logan; title: Thinking feminist in 1963: challenges from Betty Friedan and the U.S. President's Commission on the Status of Women  / by Linda Eisenmann; title: "Enhancing the quality of the educational experience": female activists and U.S. university and college women's centres / by Sylvia Ellis and Helen Mitchell.