A History of Women's Education in England
A History of Women's Education in England

Author: June Purvis

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13:

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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.

Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England
Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England

Author: Kenneth Charlton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1134676581

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Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England is a study of the nature and extent of the education of women in the context of both Protestant and Catholic ideological debates. Examining the role of women both as recipients and agents of religious instruction, the author assesses the nature of power endowed in women through religious education, and the restraints and freedoms this brought.

Gender, Work and Education in Britain in the 1950s
Gender, Work and Education in Britain in the 1950s

Author: S. Spencer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-08-17

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0230286186

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Improvements in education and economic expansion in the 1950s ensured a range of school-leaving employment opportunities. Yet girls' full acceptance as adult women was still confirmed by marriage and motherhood rather than employment. This book examines the gendered nature of 'career'. Using both written sources and oral history it enters the theoretical debate over the significance of gender by considering the relationship between individual 'women' and the dominant representation of 'Woman'.

The Educated Woman
The Educated Woman

Author: Katharina Rowold

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-02-09

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1134625847

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The Educated Woman is a comparative study of the ideas on female nature that informed debates on women’s higher education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in three western European countries. Exploring the multi-layered roles of science and medicine in constructions of sexual difference in these debates, the book also pays attention to the variety of ways in which contemporary feminists negotiated and reconstituted conceptions of the female mind and its relationship to the body. While recognising similarities, Rowold shows how in each country the higher education debates and the underlying conceptions of women’s nature were shaped by distinct historical contexts.

Manners & Mutiny
Manners & Mutiny

Author: Gail Carriger

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2015-11-03

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0316299782

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If one must flirt...flirt with danger. Lessons in the art of espionage aboard Mademoiselle Geraldine's floating dirigible have become quite tedious without Sophronia's sweet sootie Soap nearby. She would much rather be using her skills to thwart the dastardly Picklemen, but her concerns about their wicked intentions are ignored, and now she's not sure whom to trust. What does the brusque werewolf dewan know? On whose side is the ever-stylish vampire Lord Akeldama? Only one thing is certain: a large-scale plot is under way, and when it comes to fruition, Sophronia must be ready to save her friends, her school, and all of London from disaster--in decidedly dramatic fashion, of course. What will become of our proper young heroine when she puts her years of training to the test? Find out in this highly anticipated and thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Finishing School series!

Women in England 1760-1914
Women in England 1760-1914

Author: Susie Steinbach

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published: 2013-07-25

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 1780226667

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A rich and fresh survey of women's lives between George III and the First World War Using diaries, letters, memoirs as well as social and statistical research, this book looks at life-expectancy, sex, marriage and childbirth, and work inside and outside the home, for all classes of women. It charts the poverty and struggles of the working class as well as the leadership roles of middle-class and elite women. It considers the influence of religion, education, and politics, especially the advent of organised feminism and the suffragette movement. It looks, too, at the huge role played by women in the British Empire: how imperialism shaped English women's lives and how women also moulded the Empire.

A History of Women’s Prisons in England
A History of Women’s Prisons in England

Author: Susanna Menis

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-11-19

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1527543706

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This book presents a revisionist prison history which brings to the forefront the relationship between gender and policy. It examines women’s prisons in England from the late 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century, drawing attention to the detrimental effect the orthodox closed prison has on penal reform. The text investigates the clash between what was conceptualised as desirable prison policy and the actual implementation and implications of such a penalty on the prisoner. It challenges previous claims made about the invisibility of women prisoners in historical penal policy, and provides an original analysis of the open prison, taking HMP Askham Grange as a case study, where the history of such an initiative is explored and debated.

Education in Early Modern England
Education in Early Modern England

Author: Helen M. Jewell

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 9780312217471

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Covering the period c.1530-c.1760, this book analyzes the aims, facilities and achievements across all levels of institutional and informal education in England. Attention is given to the education situation in the rest of the British Isles, as well as western Europe and North America. Providing a strong grasp of the medieval foundations of education in England, the book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the current state of the debate, also integrating women's education into the general picture.

Women's History: Britain, 1850-1945
Women's History: Britain, 1850-1945

Author: June Purvis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-01-28

Total Pages: 631

ISBN-13: 1135367094

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Women's History: Britain 1850-1945 introduces the main themes and debates of feminist history during this period of change, and brings together the findings of new research. It examines the suffrage movement, race and empire, industrialisation, the impact of war and womens literature. Specialists in their own fields have each written a chapter on a key aspect of womens lives including health, the family, education, sexuality, work and politics. Each contribution provides an overview of the main issues and debates within each area and offers suggestions for further reading. It not only provides an invaluable introduction to every aspect of womens participation in the political, social and economic history of Britain, but also brings the reader up to date with current historical thinking on the study of womens history itself.