Women, education, and agency, 1600-2000

• Other Authors: Spence, Jean., Aiston, Sarah Jane., Meikle, Maureen M.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Series: Routledge research in gender and history ; 9.
• Subjects: Women > Education > History.; Women > Education > History. > Great Britain; Feminism > History.; Feminism > History. > Great Britain; Feminism.; Women.; EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.; Electronic books.
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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.

Table of Contents:

• Women, education, and agency, 1600-2000: an historical perspective / Sarah Jane Aiston
• Self-tuition and the intellectual achievement of early modern women: Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) / Barbara Bulckaert
• Women and agency: the educational legacy of Mary Wollstonecraft / Joyce Senders Pedersen
• Scientific women: their contribution to culture in England in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Ruth Watts
• Ramabai and Rokeya: the history of gendered social capital in India / Barnita Bagchi
• Russian women in European universities, 1864-1900 / Marianna Muravyeva
• "Knowledge as the necessary food of the mind": Charlotte Mason's philosophy of education / Stephanie Spencer
• A woman's challenge: the voice of Şükufe Nihal in the modernisation of Turkey / Aynur Soydan Erdemir
• Femininity and mathematics at Cambridge circa 1900 / Claire Jones
• Thinking women: international education for peace and equality, 1918-1930 / Katherine Storr
• London's feminist teachers and the urban political landscape / Jane Martin
• Feminist criminology in Britain circa 1920-1960: education, agency, and activism outside the academy / Anne Logan
• Thinking feminist in 1963: challenges from Betty Friedan and the U.S. President's Commission on the Status of Women / Linda Eisenmann
• "Enhancing the quality of the educational experience": female activists and U.S. university and college women's centres / Sylvia Ellis and Helen Mitchell.