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Mary Sumner: Mission, Education and Motherhood: Thinking a Life with Bourdieu
Sue Anderson-Faithful
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Paperback. BIC Classification: BG; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
The founder and president of the Mothers' Union, one of the first and largest women's organisations, Mary Sumner (1828-1921) was an influential educator and a force to be reckoned with in the Church of England of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using the analytical tools of the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, Sue Anderson-Faithful locates Mary Sumner's life and thought against social and religious networks in which she was restricted by gender yet privileged by class and proximity to distinguished individuals. This dichotomy is key to understanding the achievements of a woman who both replicated and shaped Victorian attitudes to ... Read more
The founder and president of the Mothers' Union, one of the first and largest women's organisations, Mary Sumner (1828-1921) was an influential educator and a force to be reckoned with in the Church of England of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using the analytical tools of the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, Sue Anderson-Faithful locates Mary Sumner's life and thought against social and religious networks in which she was restricted by gender yet privileged by class and proximity to distinguished individuals. This dichotomy is key to understanding the achievements of a woman who both replicated and shaped Victorian attitudes to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Lutterworth Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780718894955
SKU
V9780718894955
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About Sue Anderson-Faithful
Dr Sue Anderson-Faithful is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Winchester where she teaches history and the pedagogy of history. She is a member of the Centre for the History of Women's Education. Her research focus is on Anglican women's philanthropic and educational activism in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, in particular the Mothers' ... Read more
Reviews for Mary Sumner: Mission, Education and Motherhood: Thinking a Life with Bourdieu
'Mary Sumner was the founder of what would become the largest and most powerful women's organisation in the Church of England - the Mother's Union. In this fascinating, thought-provoking study of Sumner's life and activism, Sue Anderson-Faithful outlines the significant moral, educational and philanthropic influence exercised by an ostensibly non-political institution across a breadth of women's concerns. Sumner's own emotional ... Read more