Author:
Clifford, Geraldine Jonçich.
ImprintBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014]
Descriptionxx, 458 pages ; 24 cm
Note:1. "It is well that women should be unlettered": before teaching school was "women's work" -- 2. "School dames in each quarter": America's army of Gertrudes -- 3. "A sisterhood of instruction, essential to the world's progress": societal pressures and women's opportunities, 1700-1900 -- 4. "Overflowing from the domestic circle": individual and family factors in choosing to teach -- 5. "An honorable breadwinning weapon": who became teachers? -- 6. "The presiding genius of his home and heart": her marital status and domestic arrangements -- 7. "In the mind's eye": images and expectations of the teacher -- 8. "Higher prospects for a useful life": the teacher as trained professional -- 9. "Laboring conscientiously, though perhaps obscurely": certain realities of being a teacher -- 10. "The great perplexities of the teacher-life": Gertrudes talk and their pupils reminisce -- 11. "That our daughters may be as cornerstones": women teachers and messianic America -- 12. "The feast of reason and flow of soul": the political rights and civic duties of women -- 13. "A lady well qualified to show the way": widening women's work.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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