Country Schoolwomen: Teaching in Rural California, 1850-1950

by Kathleen Weiler

Focusing on the lives and work of women teachers in two rural California counties from 1850 to 1950, Country Schoolwomen explores the social context of teaching, seeking to understand what teaching meant to women teachers, what it provided them, and how it shaped their categories of experience.

The women we meet in this study taught in isolated one- and two-room schoolhouses and in the migrant schools of the Depression years; many...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804730040
• ISBN13: 9780804730044
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"