An Experiment in the Development of Social Networks for Women: Women's Colleges in Ireland in the Nineteenth Century

Autor/in	Harford, Judith
Titel	An Experiment in the Development of Social Networks for Women: Women's Colleges in Ireland in the Nineteenth Century
Quelle	In: Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 43 (2007) 3, S.365-381 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0030-9230
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Single Sex Colleges; Womens Education; Middle Class; Catholics; Protestants; Church Related Colleges; Social Networks; Extracurricular Activities; Student Organizations; Activism; Cultural Maintenance; Organizations (Groups); Ireland; Ireland (Dublin); United Kingdom (Belfast) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; Mittelschicht; Katholik; Protestantism; Protestantismus; Kirchliche Hochschule; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Außerunterrichtliche Aktivität; Student organisations; Schülerorganisation; Studentenorganisation; Studentenvereinigung; Studentenvertretung; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Irland
Abstract	This article examines the network of women's colleges which emerged in Ireland in the latter half of the nineteenth century in response to women's exclusion from the realm of the university and their desire to participate in higher education. These colleges, run largely along denominational lines, were situated in the major cities with the majority located in Dublin. The pioneering colleges for Protestant women were the Ladies' Collegiate School (1859), later Victoria College Belfast (1887) and Alexandra College Dublin (1866). Colleges for Catholic women emerged from the 1880s, largely as a result of a perceived threat of proselytism, and as a result of the demands of middle-class Catholic women to higher education within a Catholic setting. Run principally by the Dominican, Loreto and Ursuline orders, the most prominent Catholic women's colleges were the Dominican College Eccles Street, Dublin (1882), St Angela's College and High School, Cork (1887), St Mary's University College, Dublin (1893) and Loreto College, St Stephen's Green, Dublin (1893). Whether Catholic or Protestant, these colleges were established with the sole objective of targeting the more prestigious and valuable domains of knowledge, allowing middle class women students access to a range of high prestige cultural and social capital. They offered teaching in the liberal arts, providing participating women students with exposure to a demanding academic curriculum and to participation in the public examination arena. They also promoted membership of college societies--literary, sporting, philanthropic and political, strengthening women's capacity to fulfil a more public and active role in nineteenth-century Irish society. (Contains 62 footnotes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10