A World of Their Own: A History of South African Women's Education 

Author:   Meghan Healy-Clancy
Publisher:   University of Virginia Press
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9780813936086


Pages:   328
Publication Date:   19 June 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Meghan Healy-Clancy
Publisher:   University of Virginia Press
Imprint:   University of Virginia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.546kg
ISBN:  

9780813936086


ISBN 10:   081393608
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   19 June 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Meghan Healy-Clancy has deftly woven theoretical arguments about social reproduction and gender into the narrative without these arguments obscuring the fascinating people and places she describes.--Sue Krige, coauthor of Soweto, 16 June 1976: Personal Accounts of the Uprising


A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2014 Meghan Healy-Clancy has deftly woven theoretical arguments about social reproduction and gender into the narrative without these arguments obscuring the fascinating people and places she describes.--Sue Krige, coauthor of Soweto, 16 June 1976: Personal Accounts of the Uprising A World of Their Own offers a substantial, indeed pioneering, exploration of the social history of black female education in South Africa. This rich and coherent study of Inanda Seminary illuminates wider issues around religion, family, domesticity, female employment, racial policy, and elite transition, yet it retains a human face and voice, and a sense of the interconnecting familial networks of African women nurtured by this historic mission institution.--Deborah Gaitskell, University of London A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2014 Meghan Healy-Clancy has deftly woven theoretical arguments about social reproduction and gender into the narrative without these arguments obscuring the fascinating people and places she describes.--Sue Krige, coauthor of Soweto, 16 June 1976: Personal Accounts of the Uprising A World of Their Own offers a substantial, indeed pioneering, exploration of the social history of black female education in South Africa. This rich and coherent study of Inanda Seminary illuminates wider issues around religion, family, domesticity, female employment, racial policy, and elite transition, yet it retains a human face and voice, and a sense of the interconnecting familial networks of African women nurtured by this historic mission institution.--Deborah Gaitskell, University of London


A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2014


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Meghan Healy-Clancy is a Lecturer on History and Literature at Harvard University, USA.

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