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Female education is a catch-all term for a complex set of issues and debates surrounding education (primary education, secondary education, tertiary education, and health education in particular) for girls and women.
From false claims that algebra damages their ovaries, to outperforming boys, it's been a long journey for girls to achieve education equality.
This Timeline of women's education is an overview of the history of education for women worldwide. It includes key individuals, institutions, law reforms, and events that have contributed to the development and expansion of educational opportunities for women.
3 mag 2019 · Turning histories of women’s education for ambiguity. Whether understood as informal education, self-education, or institutionalised as schooling, education (or the lack of it) has been understood as an important aspect of women’s lives.
- Sue Anderson-Faithful, Joyce Goodman
- 2020
- Parallel Debates, Developments, and Dilemmas
- Ripples from The Second Wave
- Revisiting and Revising
- Identity and Histories of Feminist Reform
- A Case Example: Histories of Feminism, Freedom, and Australian Schooling
Women’s and gender history were vital to the intellectual and political project of second-wave feminism; they were at the forefront too in developing an institutional presence for feminist scholarship in the academy (David 2016; Corbman 2015). A signature trope in feminist and women’s history has been a marked reflexivity about their lineage and le...
Second-wave feminist historians were crucial in challenging and recasting some of the received historical narratives which had focused, for example, on the public sphere of political action, nationalist histories, or major social figures and events (Offen et al. 1991). Such recovery work offered a compelling rationale for women’s studies programs t...
Reflections on the direction of contemporary feminist history, following the earlier second-wave recovery history and the more recent discursive and performative turns (Roper 2010; Morgan 2009), convey shifting political, methodological, and theoretical agendas. Current concerns and directions within feminist history also parallel debates across th...
Acknowledging and working with and from such uncertainty about gender, as Scott proposes above, represents a particular challenge for contemporary feminist historians of education. This is so because the construct of gender identity – as knowable, as a site of reform, and as a catalyst for political action and utopian endeavors – has been central t...
A widespread remembering and stock take of second-wave feminism is well underway (Offen and Yan 2018), and this is also so in relation to feminism and education, with broad overviews as well as more regionally focused assessments of its recent legacies (Tinkler and Allan 2015; Skelton and Frances 2009; Dillabough et al. 2008). Reassessments of the ...
- Julie Mcleod
- j.mcleod@unimelb.edu.au
14 ott 2020 · Despite the significance of this landmark year, women had studied at the University of Oxford long before 1920. In fact, they had been making their mark on the University and advocating for women’s access to an Oxford education since the 1860s.
Throughout history, women have made extraordinary contributions to their societies. Some are well known, some less so, but all have been trail blazers. Explore a small selection of these women and learn what the reality still is today for many women and girls worldwide.
