ISBN:
9780230375376
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (196 pages)
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
305.4/0942
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Patriarchy Challenged? Women and Work in Nineteenth-century Industrial Lancashire -- The early stages of industrialisation -- The Factory Acts of 1833 and 1844 -- Towards consensus -- Women's views -- Conclusions -- 2 Women's Work in Agricultural Production: Nineteenth-century Norfolk and Suffolk -- The 1834 Poor Law -- Towards consensus? -- Conclusions -- 3 Schooling for Social Control? The Early Nineteenth Century -- The purposes and provisions of schooling -- Popular views on girls' schooling -- Working-class views -- Access to schooling and education -- Conclusions -- 4 Religion, Reading and Really Useful Knowledge -- Curriculum development -- Consumer demand -- Experiences and achievements -- Conclusions -- 5 An Education of Principle: the Later Nineteenth Century -- Working-class views -- State policies -- Access to schooling -- Conclusions -- 6 Schooling for Domesticity? The Later Nineteenth Century -- Curriculum practices -- Standards of attainment -- The 'deficiencies' of schooling -- Conclusions -- 7 What a Woman Knows: the Significance of Education in the Lives of Working-class Women -- Industrial capitalism, class struggle and patriarchy in nineteenth-century Lancashire -- Class alienation and patriarchy in rural Norfolk and Suffolk -- Schooling and education -- 8 From the Past to the Present -- From private to public patriarchy -- Schooling, education and the reproduction of class and gender -- Future prospects in schooling? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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