'Femininity' and the history of women's education : shifting the frame /: shifting the frame. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Tim Allender, Stephanie Spencer.
• Editors: Allender, Tim; Spencer, Stephanie, 1952-
• Contents: 1. Shifting 'femininities': multifaceted realms of historical educational inquiry- Tim Allender and Stephanie Spencer 2. 'Unnatural' Women and Natural Science: changing femininity and expanding educational sites through women's pursuit of natural science- Ruth Watts 3. African American Women, Femininity and their History In Physical Education and Sports in American Higher Education: from World War I through the mid-century- Linda M. Perkins 4. Suzanne Karpelès' encounters in Indochina and Europe in 1931: multiple femininities, colonial relations and educative sites- Joyce Goodman 5. Troubling Gender Relations with the Appointment of 'That Lady Inspector' in Post-suffrage South Australia- Kay Whitehead 6. Shifting Spaces of Femininity: the everyday life of girl guides in Hong Kong 1921-1941- Stella Meng Wang 7. 'I turned into the boorish, stiff, unpleasant teenager that he expected, and that was what I immediately therefore became': negotiating the 'risk' of femininity in teenage girls' reading in 1960s Britain- Stephanie Spencer 8. 'A great builder': female enterprise, architectural ambition and the construction of convents- Deirdre Raftery and Deirdre Bennett 9. Reconfiguring Women and Empire: sex, race and femininity in British India, 1785-1922- Tim Allender 10. Histories of women's education and shifting frames of 'femininity'- Stephanie Spencer and Tim Allender.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 371.822; Women -- Education -- History; Femininity
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030542337
• Related ISBNs: 9783030542320
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