Hard Lessons: Lives and Education of Working Class Women in Nineteenth Century England - Couverture rigide

Purvis, June

 
9780745606637: Hard Lessons: Lives and Education of Working Class Women in Nineteenth Century England
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ISBN 10 : 0745606636 ISBN 13 : 9780745606637
Editeur : Polity Press, 1989

Synopsis

This highly original study examines the lives and education of working-class women in nineteenth-century England. Focusing on adult education, the author shows that women's participation cannot be fully understood by concentrating upon the educational field alone. She therefore explores women's lives in employment and in unpaid duties within the family which determined the possiblility of participation in adult classes. The author discusses the influences of society and the family upon formal education provision for working-class women, and she examines the basic schooling for girls which determined the type of adult education they could undertake in later life. `Hard Lessons' is an invaluable reversal of the invisibility of working-class women in the history of the nineteenth-century. Based on intensive research of primary sources, this work raises major questions concerning women in education, such as the value of single-sex education, which are still of relevance today. This work will be of great interest to students and researchers in women's studies, social history and the history of education.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This highly original study examines the lives and education of working–class women in nineteenth–century England. Focusing on adult education, the author shows that women′s participation cannot be fully understood by concentrating upon the educational field alone. She therefore explores women′s lives in employment and in unpaid duties within the family which determined the possiblility of participation in adult classes. The author discusses the influences of society and the family upon formal education provision for working–class women, and she examines the basic schooling for girls which determined the type of adult education they could undertake in later life. `Hard Lessons′ is an invaluable reversal of the invisibility of working–class women in the history of the nineteenth–century. Based on intensive research of primary sources, this work raises major questions concerning women in education, such as the value of single–sex education, which are still of relevance today. This work will be of great interest to students and researchers in women′s studies, social history and the history of education.

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Éditeur
Polity Press
Date d'édition
1989
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0745606636
ISBN 13 
9780745606637
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
300
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780816618224: Hard Lessons: The Lives and Education of Working-Class Women in Nineteenth-Century England

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0816618224 ISBN 13 :  9780816618224
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 1989
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