Woman's "True" Profession

by Hoffman, Nancy

• ISBN13: 9781891792137
• ISBN10: 189179213X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Harvard Education Pr

Table of Contents

Dedication	v
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(22)
Seminary for Social Power: The Classroom Becomes Woman's Sphere	23	(96)
Nancy Hoffman
Pioneering the Education of Young Women	49	(9)
Emma Hart Willard
Teaching in the Little Red Schoolhouse	58	(8)
Lucia B. Downing
Remedy for Wrongs to Women	66	(13)
Catherine Beecher
``Civilizing'' the West: Letters from the Frontier	79	(6)
Ellen P. Lee
Mary S. Adams
Preparing to Teach: A Journal	85	(8)
Mary Swift
Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching	93	(10)
Fanny Jackson-Coppin
The Schooolmarm	103	(16)
Anna Fuller
A Noble Work Done Earnestly: Missionary Teachers in the Civil War South	119	(108)
Nancy Hoffman
Teaching During the Civil War: A Fourteen-Year-Old's Story	141	(5)
Susie King Taylor
Missionary Maidens	146	(3)
Mary Clemmer Ames
From Northern Home to Southern Dangers	149	(10)
Maria S. Waterbury
Sisters in the Service	159	(6)
Sarah Chase
Lucy Chase
Julia Rutledge
Hard Work Every Day: A New England Woman's Diary in Dixie	165	(5)
Mary Ames
An African American Teacher in South Carolina	170	(11)
Charlotte L. Forten
Emancipation's Primer: The Freedmen's Book	181	(4)
Lydia Maria Child
New Rules for African American and White	185	(7)
Elizabeth Hyde Botume
An African American Oberlin Student Goes South	192	(17)
Sara Stanley
A Good Life, Staying On	209	(8)
Laura M. Towne
The March of Progress	217	(10)
Charles W. Chesnutt
Teaching in the Big City: Women, the Education Bureaucracy, and Teacher Organizing	227	(94)
Nancy Hoffman
The True Character of the New York Public Schools	251	(14)
Adele Marie Shaw
The Inquisition of the Teacher, or, ``Gum Shoe Tim'' on the War-Path	265	(4)
Myra Kelly
Schoolteacher's Nightmare	269	(3)
Mary Abigail Dodge
The First Class: A Reminiscence	272	(8)
Marian Dogherty
An Immigrant Student and Her Teacher	280	(6)
Mary Antin
My Mother's Principal and Mine: A Personal Interview with Mary Agnes Dwyer	286	(6)
Nancy Hoffman
Teaching in an African American Boarding School	292	(12)
Frances O. Grant
Public Schools ``Owned'' by Politicians	304	(4)
Amelia Allison
Why Teachers Should Organize	308	(8)
Margaret Haley
Equal Pay for Equal Work	316	(5)
Grace C. Strachan
Notes	321	(12)
About the Author	333	(2)
Index	335	(4)
Photo Credits	339