Author Description

Women, Education, And Agency, 1600-2000: An Historical Perspective / Sarah Jane Aiston -- Self-tuition And The Intellectual Achievement Of Early Modern Women: Anna Maria Van Schurman (1607-1678) / Barbara Bulckaert -- Women And Agency: The Educational Legacy Of Mary Wollstonecraft / Joyce Senders Pedersen -- Scientific Women: Their Contribution To Culture In England In The Late Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries / Ruth Watts -- Ramabai And Rokeya: The History Of Gendered Social Capital In India / Barnita Bagchi -- Russian Women In European Universities, 1864-1900 / Marianna Muravyeva -- Knowledge As The Necessary Food Of The Mind: Charlotte Mason's Philosophy Of Education / Stephanie Spencer -- A Woman's Challenge: The Voice Of Şükufe Nihal In The Modernisation Of Turkey / Aynur Soydan Erdemir -- Femininity And Mathematics At Cambridge Circa 1900 / Claire Jones -- Thinking Women: International Education For Peace And Equality, 1918-1930 / Katherine Storr -- London's Feminist Teachers And The Urban Political Landscape / Jane Martin -- Feminist Criminology In Britain Circa 1920-1960: Education, Agency, And Activism Outside The Academy / Anne Logan -- Thinking Feminist In 1963: Challenges From Betty Friedan And The U.s. President's Commission On The Status Of Women / Linda Eisenmann -- Enhancing The Quality Of The Educational Experience: Female Activists And U.s. University And College Women's Centres / Sylvia Ellis And Helen Mitchell. Edited By Jean Spence, Sarah Jane Aiston, Maureen M. Meikle. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.