Practical Visionaries: Women, Education and Social Progress, 1790-1930

by Mary Hilton and Pam Hirsch

An examination of women educationists in nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain. Working with new paradigms opened up by feminist scholarship, it reveals how women leaders were determined to transform education in the quest for a better society. Previous scholarship has either neglected the contributions of these women or has misplaced them. Consequently intellectual histories of education have come to seem almost exclusively masculine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582404312
• ISBN13: 9780582404311
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"