1st Edition

Women's Education in Early Modern Europe A History, 1500Tto 1800

Edited By Barbara Whitehead, Barbara Whitehead Copyright 1999
    276 Pages
    by Routledge

    276 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book chronicles 300 years of women's education during this time. Barabara Whitehead examines this history from a feminist perspective, pointing to the subversive actions of the women of this period that led to the formation of academia as we know it.

    Chapter 1 Learning the Virtues, Sharon T. Strocchia; Chapter 2 Equal in Opportunity?, Sharon D. Michalove; Chapter 3 The Pattern of Perfect Womanhood, Shimizu Stacey; Chapter 4 The Rei(g)ning of Women’s Tongues in English Books of Instruction and Rhetorics, Catherine R. Eskin; Chapter 5 The Literacy of Jewish Women in Early Modern Italy, Howard Adelman; Chapter 6 To Educate or Instruct?, Colleen Fitzgerald; Chapter 7 “Its Frequent Visitor”, Carolyn C. Lougee; Chapter 8 ‘A Knowledge Speculative and Practical’, Adrianna E. Bakos;

    Biography

    Barbara J. Whitehead