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Zusatztext "The theme of women's agency is inspiring? This collection is a valuableaddition to the Routledge Research in Gender and History series! as well as avalid assertion of the role of women in educational history." - Jane McDermid! European History Quarterly Informationen zum Autor Sarah Jane Aiston is a lecturer in the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Research in Higher Education, School of Education, Durham University. She has an interest in the history of women in higher education and has recently published within this field in 20th Century British History , History of Education and Women's History Review . Maureen Meikle is a senior lecturer in early modern history in the School of Arts, Design, Media & Culture, University of Sunderland. Her research interests include early modern Scottish Women and Queen Anna of Denmark (1574-1619). She edited, with Elizabeth Ewan, Women in Scotland, c. 1100-c, 1750 (2000). Jean Spence is a lecturer in Community and Youth Work in the School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University. Her research interests include the history and practice of informal educational approaches, youth work with girls and young women, and gender relations in mining communities. She has recently published in these fields within Women’s History Review ; Community, Work and Family , Sociological Research Online , and Youth and Policy . She is a co-editor and contributing author to a series of collected essays published by the National Youth Agency relating to the history of Youth and Community Work. Zusammenfassung Women, Education, and Agency 1600-2000 explores a range of topics on the history of women in eductational settings around the world, from the strategies of individuals seeking a personal education, to organized efforts of women to pursue broader feminist goals in an educational context. Inhaltsverzeichnis ForewordBy Carol DyhousePrefaceChapter One: Women! Education and Agency! 1600-2000: An Historical Perspective By Sarah Jane AistonChapter Two: Self-Tutition and the Intellectual Achievement of Early Modern Women: Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678)By Barbara BulckaertChapter Three: Women and Agency: The Educational Legacy of Mary WollstonecraftBy Joyce Senders PedersenChapter Four: Scientific Women: Their Contribution to Culture in England in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries By Ruth WattsChapter Five: Ramabai and Rokeya: The History of Gendered Social Capital in IndiaBy Barnita BagchiChapter Six: Russian Women in European Universities! 1864-1900By Marianna MuravyevaChapter Seven: 'Knowledge as the Necessary Food of the Mind': Charlotte Mason's Philosophy of EducationBy Stephanie SpencerChapter Eight: A Woman's Challenge: The Voice of Sukufe Nihal in the Modernisation of TurkeyBy Aynur Soydan ErdemirChapter Nine: Femininity and Mathematics at Cambridge circa 1900By Claire JonesChapter Ten: Thinking Women: International Education for Peace and Equality! 1918-1930By Katherine StorrChapter Eleven: London's Feminist Teachers and the Urban Political LandscapeBy Jane MartinChapter Twelve: Feminist Criminology in Britain c.1920-1960: Education! Agency and Activism outside the AcademyBy Anne LoganChapter Thirteen: Thinking Feminist in 1963: Challenges from Betty Friedan and the U.S. President's Commission on the Status of WomenBy Linda EisenmannChapter Fourteen: 'Enhancing the quality of the educational experience': Female Activists and U.S. University and College Women's CentresBy Sylvia Ellis and Helen MitchellAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsIndex ...
