Women's Education in Early Modern Europe: A History, 1500Tto 1800

by Barbara Whitehead (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135580940
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/12/2012
Series:	Studies in the History of Education
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	276
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Barbara J. Whitehead

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;