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Autore: | Rury John L. <1951-> |
Titolo: | Education and women's work : female schooling and the division of labor in urban America, 1870-1930 / / John L. Rury |
Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c1991 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xix, 277 pages) |
Disciplina: | 376/.63/0973 |
Soggetto topico: | Women - Education (Secondary) - United States - History |
Women - Employment - United States - History | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Social conditions 1865-1918 |
United States Social conditions 1918-1932 | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Women at School: The Feminization of American High Schools, 1870-1900 -- Visions of Equality -- Feminization of the High School -- The Coeducation Question -- Equality and the Curriculum -- Conclusion: An Age of Opportunity -- 2. Participation and Purpose in Women's Education: Who Went to School, and Why -- Who Went to School -- Female School Participation, 1870-1900: An Ecological Analysis -- The Personal Record -- Conclusion: Stepping into a Larger World -- 3. Women at Work: Female Labor Force Participation and Education, 1890-1930 -- The Changing Shape of Women's Work, 1890-1930 -- School-Leaving and Labor Force Participation: Regional Differences -- Occupations and Education -- Ethnicity, Education, and Women's Work -- Conclusion: Opportunities and Constraints in Female Employment -- 4. Vocationalism Ascendant: Women and the High School Curriculum, 1890-1930 -- New Purposes in Women's Education -- The Home Economics Movement -- Commercial Education: A Vocational Groundswell -- Industrial Education for Women -- The Changing Face of Coeducation -- Regional Patterns of Female Participation in High School Courses -- Conclusion: Educational Policy and Women's Work -- 5. Varieties of Adaptation: Local Patterns of Women's Education and Work -- Education and Women's Work in Two Cities -- Women's Work and the High School Curriculum: Patterns of Adaptation -- Education and Social Class: Women in Clerical Courses -- Conclusion: Education and Local Labor Markets -- Conclusion -- Statistical Appendix: Teenage School Attendance in the Latter Nineteenth Century -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1. Women at School: The Feminization of American High Schools, 1870-1900 -- 2. Participation and Purpose in Women's Education: Who Went to School and Why. |
3. Women at Work: Female Labor Force Participation and Education, 1890-1930 -- 4. Vocationalism Ascendant: Women and the High School Curriculum, 1890-1930 -- 5. Varieties of Adaptation: Local Patterns of Women's Education and Work -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z. | |
Titolo autorizzato: | Education and women's work |
ISBN: | 1-4384-1835-3 |
0-585-05633-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910823176903321 |
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