Whitehead Women's Education in Early Modern Europe

A History, 1500Tto 1800
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-135-58095-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in the History of Education

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whitehead, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Barbara Whitehead; Learning the Virtues: Convent Schools and Female Culture in Renaissance Florence, Sharon T. Strocchia; Equal in Opportunity? The Education of Aristocratic Women 1450-1540, Sharon D. Michalove; The Pattern of Perfect Womanhood: Feminine Virtue, Pattern Books and the Fiction of the Clothworking Woman, Stacey Shimizu; The Rei(g)ning of Women's Tongues in English Books of Instruction and Rhetorics, Catherine R. Eskin; The Literacy of Jewish Women in Early Modern Italy, Howard Adelman; To Educate or Instruct? Du Bose and Fenelon on Women, Colleen Fitzgerald; "Its Frequent Visitor": Death at Boarding School in Early Modern Europe, Carolyn C. Lougee; 'A Knowledge Speculative and Practical':The Dilemma of Midwives Education in Early Modern Europe, Adrianna E. Bakos