Women and the shaping of the nation's young : education and public doctrine in Britain, 1750-1850
Researchers have neglected the cultural history of education and as a result women's educational works have been disparaged as narrowly didactic and redundant to the history of ideas. This book serves as a corrective to these biases by culturally contextualising the popular educational writings of leading women moralists and activists.
History
286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780754657903, 9781138259560, 0754657906, 113825956X
1004771833
pt. I. The young citizen: issues of enlightenment, gender, and virtue
pt. II. Vice and misery: educating the young in the counter enlightenment
pt. III. Childhood contested: social and educational reform in the mid-nineteenth century