'Femininity' and the History of Women's Education: Shifting the Frame

Book Overview

1. Shifting 'femininities': multifaceted realms of historical educational inquiry- Tim Allender and Stephanie Spencer

2. 'Unnatural' Women and Natural Science: changing femininity and expanding educational sites through women's pursuit of natural science- Ruth Watts
3. African American Women, Femininity and their History In Physical Education and Sports in American Higher Education: from World War I through the mid-century- Linda M. Perkins
4. Suzanne Karpel?s' encounters in Indochina and Europe in 1931: multiple femininities, colonial relations and educative sites- Joyce Goodman
5. Troubling Gender Relations with the Appointment of 'That Lady Inspector' in Post-suffrage South Australia- Kay Whitehead
6. Shifting Spaces of Femininity: the everyday life of girl guides in Hong Kong 1921-1941- Stella Meng Wang
7. 'I turned into the boorish, stiff, unpleasant teenager that he expected, and that was what I immediately therefore became': negotiating the 'risk' of femininity in teenage girls' reading in 1960s Britain- Stephanie Spencer

8. 'A great builder': female enterprise, architectural ambition and the construction of convents- Deirdre Raftery and Deirdre Bennett

9. Reconfiguring Women and Empire: sex, race and femininity in British India, 1785-1922- Tim Allender
10. Histories of women's education and shifting frames of 'femininity'- Stephanie Spencer and Tim Allender

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030542351
• ISBN13: 9783030542351
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"