Women's education in early modern Europe : a history, 1500-1800

Author(s)

• Whitehead, Barbara J.

Bibliographic Information

Women's education in early modern Europe : a history, 1500-1800

edited by Barbara J. Whitehead

（Garland reference library of social science, v. 1124）（Studies in the history of education, v. 7）

Garland Pub., 1999

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book chronicles 300 years of women's education during this time. Barabara Whitehead examines this history from a feminist perspective, pointing to the subversive actions of the women of this period that led to the formation of academia as we know it.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 Learning the Virtues, Sharon T. Strocchia
• Chapter 2 Equal in Opportunity?, Sharon D. Michalove
• Chapter 3 The Pattern of Perfect Womanhood, Shimizu Stacey
• Chapter 4 The Rei(g)ning of Women's Tongues in English Books of Instruction and Rhetorics, Catherine R. Eskin
• Chapter 5 The Literacy of Jewish Women in Early Modern Italy, Howard Adelman
• Chapter 6 To Educate or Instruct?, Colleen Fitzgerald
• Chapter 7 "Its Frequent Visitor", Carolyn C. Lougee
• Chapter 8 'A Knowledge Speculative and Practical', Adrianna E. Bakos

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Details

• NCID: BA42376367
• ISBN:
  • 0815324677
• LCCN: 98052002
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 260 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : LC2032
  • DC21 : 371.822/094
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Women -- Education -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
  • LCSH : Women -- Education -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Women -- Education -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Women -- Education -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00208661
  • BA38169438