Women who taught : perspectives on the history of women and teaching / edited by Alison Prentice and Marjorie R. Theobald.

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The editors provide an introduction that traces the growth of the emerging field of the history of women in teaching and identifies new directions currently developing. A bibliography offers further resources.

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CHOICE Review

This collection of ten essays on the history of female teachers in four English-speaking countries makes easily available some important articles that originally appeared in a variety of journals. Although the authors cover a broad geographic region (Australia, Britain, Canada, and the US), they concentrate on a relatively short time period, the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries. Common themes of feminization of teaching, development of women's secondary schools and colleges, and teacher organizations and unionism rising from universal discontent with low salaries and poor working conditions give the volume its cohesiveness. The essays are well written, some narrative, others analytical, all important enough to merit reproduction. A selective bibliography has been provided by Susan Gelman. Undergraduate libraries. -J. Raftery, California State University, Chico