Women, Education, and Agency, 1600-2000

Abstract

Foreword By Carol Dyhouse Preface Chapter One: Women, Education and Agency, 1600-2000: An Historical Perspective By Sarah Jane Aiston Chapter Two: Self-Tutition and the Intellectual Achievement of Early Modern Women: Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) By Barbara Bulckaert Chapter Three: Women and Agency: The Educational Legacy of Mary Wollstonecraft By Joyce Senders Pedersen Chapter Four: Scientific Women: Their Contribution to Culture in England in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries By Ruth Watts Chapter Five: Ramabai and Rokeya: The History of Gendered Social Capital in India By Barnita Bagchi Chapter Six: Russian Women in European Universities, 1864-1900 By Marianna Muravyeva Chapter Seven: 'Knowledge as the Necessary Food of the Mind': Charlotte Mason's Philosophy of Education By Stephanie Spencer Chapter Eight: A Woman's Challenge: The Voice of Sukufe Nihal in the Modernisation of Turkey By Aynur Soydan Erdemir Chapter Nine: Femininity and Mathematics at Cambridge circa 1900 By Claire Jones Chapter Ten: Thinking Women: International Education for Peace and Equality, 1918-1930 By Katherine Storr Chapter Eleven: London's Feminist Teachers and the Urban Political Landscape By Jane Martin Chapter Twelve: Feminist Criminology in Britain c.1920-1960: Education, Agency and Activism outside the Academy By Anne Logan Chapter Thirteen: Thinking Feminist in 1963: Challenges from Betty Friedan and the U.S. President's Commission on the Status of Women By Linda Eisenmann Chapter Fourteen: 'Enhancing the quality of the educational experience': Female Activists and U.S. University and College Women's Centres By Sylvia Ellis and Helen Mitchell About the Editors About the Contributors Index