Title: Country schoolwomen
First published: 1998
Description: Focusing on the lives and work of women teachers in two rural California counties from 1850 to 1950, Country Schoolwomen explores the social context of teaching, seeking to understand what teaching meant to women teachers, what it provided them, and how it shaped their categories of experience.

Through the lens of their lives, the author examines the growth of state control over schools, the irrevocable impact of powerful economic and political changes on small-town life, and the patterns of racism that have divided California since the earliest European settlements.
Subjects: Education, Rural, History, Rural Education, Social conditions, Women teachers
Places: California
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century
LC classification: LB2837 .W445 1998