Women and Education, 1800-1980

by Jane Roland Martin, Joyce Goodman, Jane Martin

Book Overview

Women and Education, 1800-1980 examines and celebrates the lives, aims, and achievements of six British women educational activists within nineteenth- and twentieth-century history: Elizabeth Hamilton, Sarah Austin, Jane Chessar, Mary Dendy, Shena Simon and Margaret Cole.
Employing a biographical approach, Jane Martin and Joyce Goodman adopt existing feminist and historical models to explore how these women resisted gender roles and combined...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333947223
• ISBN13: 9780333947227
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"