Women who taught : perspectives on the history of women and teaching / edited by Alison Prentice and Marjorie R. Theobald.

Other author Prentice, Alison, 1934-
Other author Theobald, Marjorie R.
Format Book
Publication InfoToronto : University of Toronto Press, ©1991.
Descriptionx, 301 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Women teachers--History.

Contents The historiography of women teachers: a retrospect / Alison Prentice and Marjorie R. Theobald -- Schoolmistresses and headmistresses: elitesand education in nineteenth-century England / Joyce Senders Pedersen -- "Mere accomplishments"? Melbourne's early ladies' schools reconsidered / Marjorie R. Theobald -- "The poor widow, the ignoramus and the humbug": an examination of rhetoric and reality in Victoria's 1905 Act for the Registration of Teachers and Schools / Ailsa G. Thomson Zainu'ddin -- "Daughters into teachers": educational and demographic influences on the transformation of teaching into "Women's work" in America / Geraldine Jonçich Clifford -- Teachers' work: changing patterns and perceptions in the emerging school systems of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century central Canada / Marta Danylewycz and Alison Prentice.
Contents Mary Helena Stark: the troubles of a nineteenth-century state school teacher / R. J. W. Selleck -- Feminists in teaching: the National Unionof Women Teachers, 1920-1945 / Sarah King -- "I am ready to be of assistance when I can": Lottie Bowron and rural women teachers in British Columbia / J. Donald Wilson -- Here was fellowship: a social portrait of academic women at Wellesley College, 1895-1920 / Patricia A. Palmieri -- Scholarly passion: two persons who caught it / Alison Prentice.
Local noteLittle-276519
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references: p. [285]-301.
LCCNcn 90095572
ISBN0802027458 (bound) :
ISBN0802067859 (pbk.) :

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Joyner General Stacks LB2837 .W652X 1991 ✔ Available Place Hold