1st Edition
London's Women Teachers Gender, Class and Feminism, 1870-1930
By Dina Copelman
Copyright 1996
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
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Dina Copelman's investigation of the public and private lives of women teachers reveals a strikingly different model of gender and class identity than the orthodox one constructed by historians of middle-class gender roles and middle-class feminism. Consequently, while the book focuses on women teachers from the beginning of state education in 1870 up to 1930, it is also an examination of how... Read more
I: Contexts: Gender, Class and Professionalism; 1: Looking For Work; 2: Class and Career; II: Work: Teachers and The London School System; 3: ‘A Great Adventure'; 4: Classroom Struggles; 5: ‘We do not Think that a Teacher's Duty is to Produce a Mere Human Machine' Teachers and Teaching; III: Lives: The Job, Activities and Relationships; 6: Becoming a Teacher; 7: The Products of an Intense Civilization; 8: Serving Two Masters; IV: Politics: Professionalism and Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century; 9: Professional Politics and Feminist Aspirations; 10: Equal and Different
Biography
Dina Copelman
