A history of women's education in England

Author(s)

• Purvis, June

Bibliographic Information

A history of women's education in England

June Purvis

（Gender and education series / editors, Rosemary Deem, Gaby Weiner）

Open University Press, 1991

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-149) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book examines the education of working-class and middle-class girls between 1800-1914. It argues that an influential middle-class ideology advocated that all women should confine their activities to the home, as housewives and mothers. It held that women from the lower classes should be given instruction only in knowledge that was domestically useful, and that middle-class women should be allowed to develop accomplishments that would allow them to attract socially desirable suitors. The book argues that many women of both these classes struggled against these views that were so sedulously upheld by their husbands and fathers.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Women's sphere is home Victorian domestic ideology "ladies" and "women" Part 2 Education and working-class girls dame schools Sunday schools weekday schools expansion of grants for domestic subjects scholarship system why did mass schooling arise? Part 3 "Good wives and mothers" - educational provision and working-class women adult Sunday schools mechanics' institutes working men's and working women's colleges evening schools The Women's Co-operative Guild Part 4 Education and middle-class girls home education fashionable boarding schools small day schools and cheaper boarding schools why did the women's education reform movement arise? new academic schools for middle-class girls - high schools, girls' public boarding schools, feminist awakenings Part 5 "Ladylike homemakers" - educational provision for middle class women adult education - scientific and cultural societies, mechanics' institute and working men's college movements, women's institutes and townswomen's guilds, informal self education higher education - ladies colleges, university education Part 6 Echoes into the late 20th century

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Details

• NCID: BA12861680
• ISBN:
  • 0335097758
• LCCN: 90027369
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Milton Keynes ; Philadelphia
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 159 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : LC2052
  • DC20 : 376/.942
  • NDC8 : 379.46
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Women -- Education -- England -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Women -- Education -- England -- History -- 20th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA04056601