Women's education in early modern Europe : a history, 1500-1800 /
The notion of education as "preparation for one's station in life" is explored in these essays. They look at what constituted education for women in early modern Europe and show the gender-specific nature of teaching
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Garland Pub.,
1999
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| Series: | Garland reference library of social science ;
v. 1124 Garland reference library of social science Studies in the history of education ; vol. 7. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction /$rBarbara J. Whitehead
- $tLearning the virtues : convent schools and female culture in Renaissance Florence /$rSharon T. Strocchia
- $tEqual in opportunity? The education of aristocratic women 1450-1540 /$rSharon D. Michalove
- $tThe pattern of perfect womanhood : feminine virtue, pattern books and the fiction of the clothworking woman /$rStacey Shimizu
- $tThe rei(g)ning of women's tongues in English books of instruction and rhetorics /$rCatherine R. Eskin
- $tThe literacy of Jewish women in early modern Italy /$rHoward Adelman
- $tTo educate or instruct : Du Bosc and Fénelon on women /$rColleen Fitzgerald
- $t"Its Frequent Visitor" : death at boarding school in early modern Europe /$rCarolyn C. Lougee
- $tʻA Knowledge Speculative and Practical' : the dilemma of midwives' education in early modern Europe /$rAdrianna E. Bakos
- Introduction /$rBarbara J. Whitehead
- $tLearning the virtues : convent schools and female culture in Renaissance Florence /$rSharon T. Strocchia
- $tEqual in opportunity? The education of aristocratic women 1450-1540 /$rSharon D. Michalove
- $tThe pattern of perfect womanhood : feminine virtue, pattern books and the fiction of the clothworking woman /$rStacey Shimizu
- $tThe rei(g)ning of women's tongues in English books of instruction and rhetorics /$rCatherine R. Eskin
- $tThe literacy of Jewish women in early modern Italy /$rHoward Adelman
- $tTo educate or instruct : Du Bosc and Fénelon on women /$rColleen Fitzgerald
- $t"Its Frequent Visitor" : death at boarding school in early modern Europe /$rCarolyn C. Lougee
- $tʻA Knowledge Speculative and Practical' : the dilemma of midwives' education in early modern Europe /$rAdrianna E. Bakos