Women, Education, and Agency, 1600-2000

Sarah Jane Aiston is a lecturer in the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Research in Higher Education, School of Education, Durham University. She has an interest in the history of women in higher education and has recently published within this field in 20th Century British History, History of Education and Women's History Review. Maureen Meikle is a senior lecturer in early modern history in the School of Arts, Design, Media & Culture, University of Sunderland. Her research interests include early modern Scottish Women and Queen Anna of Denmark (1574-1619). She edited, with Elizabeth Ewan, Women in Scotland, c. 1100-c, 1750 (2000).Jean Spence is a lecturer in Community and Youth Work in the School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University. Her research interests include the history and practice of informal educational approaches, youth work with girls and young women, and gender relations in mining communities. She has recently published in these fields within Women’s History Review; Community, Work and Family, Sociological Research Online, and Youth and Policy. She is a co-editor and contributing author to a series of collected essays published by the National Youth Agency relating to the history of Youth and Community Work.

• Foreword. Carol Dyhouse. Preface. 1.Women, Education and Agency, 1600-2000: An Historical Perspective. Sarah Jane Aiston. 2. Self-Tutition and the Intellectual Achievement of Early Modern Women: Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678). Barbara Bulckaert. 3. Women and Agency: The Educational Legacy of Mary Wollstonecraft. Joyce Senders Pedersen. 4. Scientific Women: Their Contribution to Culture in England in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Ruth Watts. 5. Ramabai and Rokeya: The History of Gendered Social Capital in India. Barnita Bagchi. 6. Russian Women in European Universities, 1864-1900. Marianna Muravyeva. 7. ‘Knowledge as the Necessary Food of the Mind’: Charlotte Mason’s Philosophy of Education. Stephanie Spencer. 8. A Woman’s Challenge: The Voice of Sukufe Nihal in the Modernisation of Turkey. Aynur Soydan Erdemir. 9. Femininity and Mathematics at Cambridge circa 1900. Claire Jones. 10. Thinking Women: International Education for Peace and Equality, 1918-1930. Katherine Storr. 11. London’s Feminist Teachers and the Urban Political Landscape. Jane Martin. 12. Feminist Criminology in Britain c.1920-1960: Education, Agency and Activism outside the Academy. Anne Logan. 13. Thinking Feminist in 1963: Challenges from Betty Friedan and the U.S. President’s Commission on the Status of Women. Linda Eisenmann. 14. ‘Enhancing the quality of the educational experience’: Female Activists and U.S. University and College Women’s Centres. Sylvia Ellis and Helen Mitchell. About the Editors. About the Contributors. Index.

"The book provides a historical insight into women's agency and activism in education from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The collection is designed to recover the variety in the voices of women inhabiting different geographical and social contexts while highlighting commonality and continuity with reference to creativity, achievementm and the management and transgression of structures of gender inequality"–Shruti Vip, Journal of Educational Planning and Administration.