Knowing Women Origins of Women's Education in Nineteenth-Century Australia

Name: Knowing Women Origins of Women's Education in Nineteenth-Century Australia
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ISBN: 9780521422321

ISBN-10: 0521422329

ISBN-13: 9780521422321

Edition: 1996

Authors: Marjorie R. Theobald

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Knowing Women is a comprehensive study of female education in nineteenth-century Australia, placed in international perspective. It covers a wide range of topics, including the evolution of the teaching profession; the private ladies' academies and their proprietors; the entry of women to the universities and the professions; the establishment of academic secondary schools, both church and state; girls' experience of compulsory state elementary schooling; and the schooling of outcast girls. The study is rich in narrative and biographical interest, based, where possible, on the experiences of individual girls and women. Knowing Women explores the ambiguities of its material, showing how…

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List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 308
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English




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The lost ladies' schools of colonial Australia



The keystone of the arch? Women and the universities in colonial Australia



Inventing the secondary school for girls: Brisbane Girls' Grammar School and Sydney Girls' High School



The administration of gender: the case of Victoria's lady teachers, 1850-1900



The everyday world of women who taught: some theoretical considerations



Daughters of the state: the first compulsory generations, 1870-1890



The schooling of outcast girls



Notes on writing the history of women's education