03264nam 2200697Ia 450 991078492750332120230422052052.01-282-70986-097866127098690-8264-2636-0(CKB)2670000000035240(EBL)564273(OCoLC)651657343(SSID)ssj0000431311(PQKBManifestationID)11303141(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431311(PQKBWorkID)10475722(PQKB)11530504(MiAaPQ)EBC564273(Au-PeEL)EBL564273(CaPaEBR)ebr10404948(CaONFJC)MIL270986(OCoLC)893334957(EXLCZ)99267000000003524019971103d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWomen and the politics of schooling in Victorian and Edwardian England[electronic resource] /Jane MartinLondon ;New York Leicester University Press19991 online resource (176 p.)Women, power, and politicsDescription based upon print version of record.0-7185-0053-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-159) and index.Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. London and the Politics of Mass Schooling; 2. A New Role for Women?; 3. The Sages of the Embankment; 4. Entering the Public Arena: Women's Participation in Educational Politics; 5. Administering the Domestic Curriculum; 6. 'The True Elements and Conditions of Warfare in Public Life': The Experience of Elizabeth Surr; 7. Women and Child Welfare; 8. Making or Unmaking the Difference?; Bibliography; IndexConsidering the role of women as educational policy-makers, and in particular focusing on 29 women members of the London School Board, this book examines the link between private lives and public practice in Victorian and Edwardian England. These political activists were among the first women in England to be elected to positions of political responsibility. Key concerns in the book are issues such as gender and power, and gender and welfare.Women, power, and politics.Women in educationEnglandHistoryCase studiesSchool board membersEnglandHistoryCase studiesEducationPolitical aspectsEnglandHistoryCase studiesWomenEducationEnglandHistoryCase studiesWomen in educationEnglandHistory19th centuryWomen in educationEnglandHistory20th centuryWomen in educationHistorySchool board membersHistoryEducationPolitical aspectsHistoryWomenEducationHistoryWomen in educationHistoryWomen in educationHistory379.1/531/08209421Martin Jane1959-1090437MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784927503321Women and the politics of schooling in Victorian and Edwardian England3672572UNINA