Title: Methodists and women's education in Ontario, 1836-1925
First published: 1996
Description: Johanna Selles documents nearly a century of Methodist education, from the early seminary movement in Upper Canada, through the establishment of ladies' colleges, to the admission of women into the university. She reconstructs what life was like for women at these institutions and highlights changing ideologies, curricula, and views on women's education as well as introducing some of the unique personalities who shaped Methodist higher education.

Selles concludes that by attempting to create an ideal Christian woman through education, Methodist educational structures consciously created and imposed a class-based gender ideology.
Subjects: History, Women, Education, Education (Higher), Methodist universities and colleges, Methodist women, Methodist Church, Universités méthodistes, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Éducation, Histoire, General, Femmes méthodistes, Meisjesscholen, Methodisme, Women's Studies, Universities and colleges, canada, Women, religious life
Places: Ontario, Canada
LC classification: LC1768.O6 S45 1996