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| EARLY FEMINISTS AND THE EDUCATION DEBATES: England, France, Germany 1760–1810 |
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Author - CAROL STRAUSS SOTIROPOULOS
Publication Date - January 2007
Number of Pages - 319
ISBN #9780838640876
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| Description |
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| This book examines late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century debates on the education of girls and women from a spectrum of transnational as well as culturally specific ideological standpoints. As educational reformists of the period could not expect acceptance of their views, they creatively adapted several genres, including periodicals, commissioned plans, treatises, petitions, manifestos, curricular plans, and fictional letters to sway potentially hostile audiences. The reformists are presented chronologically and include Sophie von La Roche, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Nicholas Caritat de Condorcet, Catharine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft, Theodor von Hippel, Amalia Holst, and Betty Gleim. Historical background on women's education in German lands, England, and France, as well as on relevant political events, is provided for novice readers in this field to fully appreciate discussion of the texts examined in the major chapters.
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| Author/Editor Biographies |
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| Carol Strass Sotiropoulos graduated from Clark University in 1972 with a major in German and in 1975 with a master's in comparative literature. Twenty years later she embarked on a doctoral program in comparative literary and cultural studies at the University of Connecticut, having raised three sons while teaching English and German at colleges in central Massachusetts and in Greece. Upon completion of her degree in 2001, she joined the faculty of modern languages and literature at Northern Michigan University. She has authored several articles and given numerous presentations on eighteenth-century women writers and women's education, on interactive approaches to teaching literature, and on ways to incorporate writing into adult beginning language courses. |
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