A Serious Endeavour
Gender, Education and Community at St Hugh's, 1886-2011
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2011
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Profile Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84668-515-6 (ISBN)
Profile Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84668-515-6 (ISBN)
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Offers a fresh perspective on the history of gender and education in 20th-century Britain. This title explores the relationship between personal and collective identity in one of the first higher educational establishments run by and for women, during the period in which women's role in society and university education changed beyond recognition.
Neither a cosy anecdotal inside story, nor a straightforward account of women's struggle to enter the university, this history of St Hugh's College, Oxford looks both upstairs and downstairs, at dons and undergraduates but also at domestic staff. What did it mean for the would-be school teacher, the flapper on the motorcycle, the depression era grammar-school girl, and the student revolutionary of the 1970s to re-invent themselves as educated women? Who remained excluded from this emancipated identity? What were the tensions between old and new generations of dons and undergraduates? And what of the first Principal's notorious belief in time-travel?
In this innovative study, Schwartz explores the relationship between personal and collective identity in one of the first higher educational establishments run by and for women, during a period in which women's role both in society and university education changed beyond recognition. Based on new and original research, A Seroius Endeavour offers a fresh and sometimes disquieting perspective on the history of gender and education in twentieth-century Britain, opening up new ways of thinking about the development of women's higher education.
Neither a cosy anecdotal inside story, nor a straightforward account of women's struggle to enter the university, this history of St Hugh's College, Oxford looks both upstairs and downstairs, at dons and undergraduates but also at domestic staff. What did it mean for the would-be school teacher, the flapper on the motorcycle, the depression era grammar-school girl, and the student revolutionary of the 1970s to re-invent themselves as educated women? Who remained excluded from this emancipated identity? What were the tensions between old and new generations of dons and undergraduates? And what of the first Principal's notorious belief in time-travel?
In this innovative study, Schwartz explores the relationship between personal and collective identity in one of the first higher educational establishments run by and for women, during a period in which women's role both in society and university education changed beyond recognition. Based on new and original research, A Seroius Endeavour offers a fresh and sometimes disquieting perspective on the history of gender and education in twentieth-century Britain, opening up new ways of thinking about the development of women's higher education.
Dr Laura Schwartz is a Fellow in History at St Hugh's College, Oxford. She has written on many aspects of the history of feminism in modern Britain.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.7.2011 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 12 b/w text illustrations integrated |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 406 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84668-515-X / 184668515X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84668-515-6 / 9781846685156 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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