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Those Good Gertrudes: A Social History of Women Teachers in America
Geraldine J. Clifford
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Description for Those Good Gertrudes: A Social History of Women Teachers in America
Paperback. The capstone of Clifford's distinguished career and the definitive book on women teachers in America, Those Good Gertrudes will engage scholars in the history of education and women's history, teachers past, present, and future, and readers with vivid memories of their own teachers. Num Pages: 496 pages, 18 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JNB; JNKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. .
Those Good Gertrudes explores the professional, civic, and personal roles of women teachers throughout American history. Its voice, themes, and findings build from the mostly unpublished writings of many women and their families, colleagues, and pupils. Geraldine J. Clifford studied personal history manuscripts in archives and consulted printed autobiographies, diaries, correspondence, oral histories, interviews-even film and fiction-to probe the multifaceted imagery that has surrounded teaching. This broad ranging, inclusive, and comparative work surveys a long past where schoolteaching was essentially men's work, with women relegated to restricted niches such as teaching rudiments of the vernacular language to ... Read more
Those Good Gertrudes explores the professional, civic, and personal roles of women teachers throughout American history. Its voice, themes, and findings build from the mostly unpublished writings of many women and their families, colleagues, and pupils. Geraldine J. Clifford studied personal history manuscripts in archives and consulted printed autobiographies, diaries, correspondence, oral histories, interviews-even film and fiction-to probe the multifaceted imagery that has surrounded teaching. This broad ranging, inclusive, and comparative work surveys a long past where schoolteaching was essentially men's work, with women relegated to restricted niches such as teaching rudiments of the vernacular language to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
745g
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421419794
SKU
V9781421419794
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About Geraldine J. Clifford
The first woman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship for research in education, Geraldine J. Clifford is professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Lone Voyagers: Academic Women in Coeducational Institutions, 1870-1937.
Reviews for Those Good Gertrudes: A Social History of Women Teachers in America
Clifford's book is a timely blessing, the history of teachers are at last accorded their own integrity instead of as appendages in other fields of study.
San Francisco Book Review
In a clear example of evidence-based history, Clifford gathered her stories from 628 archival collections over a period of 25 years... Highly recommended.
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San Francisco Book Review
In a clear example of evidence-based history, Clifford gathered her stories from 628 archival collections over a period of 25 years... Highly recommended.
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It is ... Read more