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‘Femininity’ and the History of Women's Education

Shifting the Frame

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Editors:
  1. Tim Allender

    1. University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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  2. Stephanie Spencer

    1. University of Winchester, Winchester, UK

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  • Draws on recent deconstructions around the idea of ‘femininity’ as a social, racial and class construct
  • Explores how notions of femininity change across time and place, and within individual lives
  • Discusses possibilities for new directions in research into women’s lives across time, place, and individual life histories

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Shifting ‘Femininities’: Multifaceted Realms of Historical Educational Inquiry

    • Tim Allender, Stephanie Spencer
    Pages 1-9

  3. ‘Unnatural’ Women and Natural Science: Changing Femininity and Expanding Educational Sites Through Women’s Pursuit of Natural Science

    • Ruth Watts
    Pages 11-36

  4. 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
    Pages 37-62

  5. Suzanne Karpelès’ Encounters in Indochina and Europe in 1931: Multiple Femininities, Colonial Relations and Educative Sites

    • Joyce Goodman
    Pages 63-87

  6. Troubling Gender Relations with the Appointment of ‘That Lady Inspector’ in Post-suffrage South Australia

    • Kay Whitehead
    Pages 89-118

  7. Shifting Spaces of Femininity: Everyday Life of Girl Guides in Hong Kong 1921–1941

    • Stella Meng Wang
    Pages 119-147

  8. ‘I turned into the boorish, stiff, unpleasant teenager… That was what he expected, and that was what I immediately therefore became’: Negotiating the ‘Risk’ of Femininity in Teenage Girls’ Reading in 1960s’ Britain

    • Stephanie Spencer
    Pages 149-173

  9. ‘A Great Builder’: Female Enterprise, Architectural Ambition and the Construction of Convents

    • Deirdre Raftery, Deirdre Bennett
    Pages 175-199

  10. Reconfiguring Women and Empire: Sex, Race and Femininity in British India, 1785–1922

    • Tim Allender
    Pages 201-230

  11. Histories of Women’s Education and Shifting Frames of ‘Femininity’

    • Stephanie Spencer, Tim Allender
    Pages 231-236

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 237-239
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About this book

This book draws on recent deconstructions around the idea of ‘femininity’ as a social, racial and class construct and explores the diversity of spaces that may be defined as educational that range from institutional contexts to family, to professional outlooks, to racial identity, to defining community and religious groupings. It explores how notions of femininity change across time and place, and within individual lives. Such changes take place at the interface of external forces and individual agency. The application of the notion of ‘femininity’ that assumes a consistent definition of the term is interrogated by the authors, leading to a discussion of the rich possibilities for new directions in research into women’s lives across time, place, and individual life histories.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Tim Allender

  • University of Winchester, Winchester, UK

    Stephanie Spencer

About the editors

Tim Allender is Professor and Chair of History and Curriculum at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Stephanie Spencer is Professor of History of Women’s Education at the University of Winchester, UK.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: ‘Femininity’ and the History of Women's Education

  • Book Subtitle: Shifting the Frame

  • Editors: Tim Allender, Stephanie Spencer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54233-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54232-0Published: 19 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54235-1Published: 19 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54233-7Published: 18 December 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 239

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Social History, Cultural History, History of Education, Women's Studies

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