The schooling of working-class girls in Victorian Scotland : gender, education and identity / Jane McDermid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDermid, Jane.

Series:

Woburn Education Series

Woburn education series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Girls--Education--Scotland--History--19th century.

Girls.

Working class--Education--Scotland--History--19th century.

Working class.

Sex discrimination in education--Scotland--History--19th century.

Sex discrimination in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (444 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The portrayal of Scotland as a particularly patriarchal society has traditionally had the effect of marginalizing Scottish women, both teachers and students, in both Scottish and British history. The Schooling of Working-Class Girls in Victorian Scotland examines and challenges this assumption and analyzes in detail the course of events which has led to a more enlightened system.Education was, and is, seen as integral to Scottish distinctiveness, but the Victorian period saw anxious debate about the impact of outside influences at a time when Scottish society seemed t

Contents:

Education and gender in nineteenth-century Scotland

Female education in Scotland before 1872

Working-class girls' schooling, 1872-1900 : the "city regions"

Working-class girls' schooling, 1872-1900 : the country districts

Dominated by the dominie? : women and the teaching profession in nineteenth-century Scotland.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [156]-196) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-135-78338-1

1-283-96399-X

0-203-96415-2

1-135-78339-X

9780203964156

OCLC:

826854846