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In search of the new woman : middle-class women and work in Britain, 1870-1914
\"The 'New Women' of late nineteenth-century Britain were seen as defying society's conventions. Studying this phenomenon from its origins in the 1870s to the outbreak of the Great War, Gillian Sutherland examines whether women really had the economic freedom to challenge norms relating to work, political action, love and marriage, and surveys literary and pictorial representations of the New Woman. She considers the proportion of middle-class women who were in employment and the work they did, and compares the different experiences of women who went to Oxbridge and those who went to other universities. Juxtaposing them against the period's rapidly expanding but seldom studied groups of women white-collar workers, the book pays particular attention to clerks and teachers and their political engagement. It also explores the dividing lines between ladies and women, the significance of respectability and the interactions of class, status and gender lying behind such distinctions\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Self-education, class and gender in Edwardian Britain: women in lower middle class families
Once societies embarked on programmes of mass education home schooling became essentially a middle-class project and remains so. This paper looks at the educational experiences of some lower middle class women at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for whom the resources of the middle-class home were simply not available. It explores both their experiences of formal schooling and of the educational provision they chose to seek and found among other groups and institutional frameworks in their society. The range and extended chronology of their educational experiences highlight the need to reconceptualise education as extended processes of physical, intellectual and moral socialisation not necessarily limited to the years of childhood and/or adolescence or time-stopped in any way.
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Family: Eek, I've got sexist children!: She burned her bra, studied feminism and gave her children gender-neutral toys and clothes. Was it all for nothing? Shocked at how sexist her offspring are, Gill Sutherland vows to change their outlook. First, she must brave the spiders
In our follow-up discussion, it emerges that the kids know that women can be doctors (two of our female friends are GPs), but admit they made the outlandish statement \"without thinking\". So the kids are, by instinct, sexist. Yikes. Covertly, I decide to test their feminist credentials. \"What do they know about feminism?\" I ask casually over tea the following day. \"Ew! Not that!\" splutters son Syd, nine, evidently fearing I am about to launch into a sex-ed chatette. Blank, bored faces. These are the kids who skip around the house chanting \"divorced, beheaded, died\" and love outdoing each other with Tudor facts, all because of Horrible Histories. I realise I need to give my feminism tutorial a gory sheen to pique their interest. \"One hundred years ago this very year,\" I wibble on in the mock cockney of a London Dungeon tour guide, \"poor Emily Wilding Davison 'ad her skull cracked open by the king's 'orse so you (I waggle a finger menacingly at the girls) are equal to him (the craggy finger turns to Syd).\" I realise with mounting despair that it is not just our roles that are enforcing gender sterotypes, but our day-to-day behaviour: dog put dead bird on child's bed, who ya gonna call? Dad (Mum will scream like a wuss). Hair needs a nice swingy ponytail, wotcha gonna do? Ask Mum (bald-headed Dad hasn't a clue). Etcetera. What is more, research by northern Spain's University of the Basque Country has revealed that mums have a greater influence on children's sexist attitudes than dads. It is a no-win situation: women are both the biggest victims and perpetrators of sexist crimes. As a mum, I feel guilty - oops, another gender stereotype . . . But it's not all my fault. I have my own parents who did for me Philip Larkin-style (\"They fuck you up, your mum and dad\"). My Scottish ex-military dad frequently visits our house to do DIY jobs and mow the lawn. My wee Scots mum, meanwhile, is the best in the world: she has a large cosy chest for cuddles, and spends all day nurturing and fussing. If the menfolk need tea, she appears cuppa in hand as if by magic.
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Gender deficit and tradition
Discovering why girls outperform boys at school but fail to do as well at university requires five years' detailed study, argues Gillian Sutherland
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The Magic of Measurement: Mental Testing and English Education 1900–40
It has been a characteristic of studies of social policy-making in England to lay considerable stress on the importance of quantification, of precise measurement, in the evolution of any given policy. It has been suggested that the power of the evidence, once properly assembled and measured, could on occasion be sufficient to dissolve previous certainties and act as a catalyst of new thought. It is perhaps not entirely fanciful to see links between this aspect of the historiography of social policy and the preoccupation of English social thought with empiricism, a preoccupation which led sometimes to the presentation of empiricism as an alternative to social theory. All of this enhances the importance of attempts to assess the role of measurement in any given field of policy and to confront directly the questions of its autonomy and the power of its advocates.
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A VIEW OF EDUCATION RECORDS IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES
Reviews the types and characteristics of educational records of the 1Ninth and Twentieth century and the problems and opportunities they presentto the archivist.
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The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science, and Medicine, 1840-1900
Sutherland reviews The Mind of the Child: Child Development in Literature, Science, and Medicine, 1840-1900 by Sally Shuttleworth.
Book Review
Letter: You say - Short points
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