Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Winner of 2005 American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Critic's Choice Award, this is a groundbreaking from Margaret Nash examining the development of women's education.

Autorentext
Margaret A. Nash is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education, University of California, Riverside, USA. She teaches courses on the history of education, history of curriculum, and gender and education. Her research has appeared in the History of Education Quarterly, the Journal of the Early Republic, and the History of Higher Education Annual. She is is winner of a 2005 American Educational Studies Assocation (AESA) Critic's Choice Award.

Inhalt
Introduction "Is Not Woman a Human Being?" Discourses on Education in the Early National Period "Cultivating the Powers of Human Beings": Curriculum and Pedagogy in Schools and Academies in the New Republic Female Education and the Emergence of the "Middling Classes" "Perfecting Our Whole Nature": Intellectual and Physical Education Possibilities and Limitations: Education and White Middle-Class Womanhood