"Special Strengths for Their Own Special Duties": Women, Higher Education and Gender Conservatism in Late Victorian Britain

Autor/in	Bush, Julia
Titel	"Special Strengths for Their Own Special Duties": Women, Higher Education and Gender Conservatism in Late Victorian Britain
Quelle	In: History of Education, 34 (2005) 4, S.387-405 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0046-760X
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Educational Change; Womens Education; Feminism; Females; Sex Role; Political Attitudes; Ideology; Educational History; Activism; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsreform; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; Feminismus; Weibliches Geschlecht; Geschlechterrolle; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Ideologie; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Großbritannien
Abstract	The article discusses contributions towards female higher education made by a group of women whose views on gender roles were conservative, rather than feminist or suffragist. Four women's conservative ideals and interconnected work for women's education are reviewed in the context of late Victorian Oxford. This study is prefaced by a discussion of historical literature on women's higher education which concludes that twentieth century feminist historians have sometimes downplayed the role of reformers who deliberately disassociated women's educational reform from the advance of gender equality. A study of conservative reformers complicates definitions both of feminism and anti-feminism, and provides an important reminder of the broader intellectual and political contexts which produced them both. (Contains 85 footnotes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10