Women's Education in Early Modern Europe: A History, 1500Tto 1800

by Whitehead,Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780815324676
• ISBN10: 0815324677
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

This book works on the premise that an "educated" woman was in early modern Europe something quite different than an educated man. Education was understood as preparation for one's station in life. Women were not "uneducated" with regard to men - they were simply educated in a different manner and toward a different end.

Author Biography

Howard Adelman served for many years as the director of the Program in Jewish Studies at Smith College and now teaches in Israel Adrianna E. Bakos is an assistant professor of history at the University of Rochester Catherine R. Eskin teaches at Drexel University in Philadelphia Colleen Fitzgerald received her Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan Carolyn Chappell Lougee is professor of history at Stanford University Sharon D. Michalove is an adjunct assistant professor in the history of education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Stacey Shimizu is currently a Visiting Instructor at Illinois Wesleyan University. She is a Doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California Sharon T. Strocchia is Associate Professor of History at Emory University Barbara J. Whitehead is Associate Professor of History at DePauw University

Table of Contents

Series Preface	vii
Introduction	ix
Barbara J. Whitehead
Learning the Virtues: Convent Schools and Female Culture in Renaissance Florence	3	(44)
Sharon T. Strocchia
Equal in Opportunity? The Education of Aristocratic Women 1450-1540	47	(28)
Sharon D. Michalove
The Pattern of Perfect Womanhood: Feminine Virtue, Pattern Books and the Fiction of the Clothworking Woman	75	(26)
Stacey Shimizu
The Rei(g)ning of Women's Tongues in English Books of Instruction and Rhetorics	101	(32)
Catherine R. Eskin
The Literacy of Jewish Women in Early Modern Italy	133	(26)
Howard Adelman
To Educate or Instruct? Du Bosc and Fenelon on Women	159	(34)
Colleen Fitzgerald
``Its Frequent Visitor'': Death at Boarding School in Early Modern Europe	193	(32)
Carolyn C. Lougee
`A Knowledge Speculative and Practical': The Dilemma of Midwives' Education in Early Modern Europe	225	(26)
Adrianna E. Bakos
About the Editor and Contributors	251	(2)
Index	253