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OverviewHow a nation educates its children tells us much about the values of its people. From the Salon to the Schoolroom examines the emerging secondary school system for girls in nineteenth-century France and uncovers how that system contributed to the fashioning of the French bourgeois woman. Rebecca Rogers explores the variety of schools - religious and lay - that existed for girls and paints portraits of the women who ran them and the girls who attended them. Drawing upon a wide array of public and private sources - school programs, prescriptive literature, inspection reports, diaries, and letters - she reveals the complexity of the female educational experience as the schoolroom gradually replaced the salon as the site of French women's special source of influence. From the Salon to the Schoolroom also shows how France as part of its civilizing mission transplanted its educational vision to other settings: the colonies in Africa as well as throughout the Western world, including England and the United States. Historians are aware of the wide-spread ramifications of Jesuit education, but Rogers shows how French education for girls played into the cross-cultural interactions of modern society producing an image of the Frenchwoman that continues to tantalize and fascinate the western world today. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rebecca RogersPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9780271026800ISBN 10: 0271026804 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 30 August 2005 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsContents List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Reconstructing Girls’ Education in the Postrevolutionary Period (1800–1830) 1. Defining Bourgeois Femininity:Voices and Debates 2. Schools, Schooling, and the Educational Experience Part II: Women, Schools, and the Politics of Culture (1830–1880) 3. Debating Women’s Place in the Consolidating Bourgeois Order (1830–1848) 4. Independent Women? Teachers and the Teaching Profession at Midcentury 5. Vocations and Professions: The Case of the Teaching Nun 6. Boarding Schools: Location, Ethos, and Female Identities Part III: National and Political Visions of Girls’ Education 7. Political Battles for Women’s Minds in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 8. Beyond the Hexagon: French Schools on Foreign Soils Conclusion Appendix 1: The Women Pedagogues Appendix 2: The Professions of Fathers and Husbands of Parisian Headmistresses (1810–1880) Notes Select Bibliography IndexReviews"""From the Salon to the Schoolroom makes an important and original contribution to the literature on France and French women. Rogers shows that girls' education was not so much about girls as about women and the role presumed proper for them. It was also about the family and the hopes and anxieties that French men and women placed on the family to reconstruct the nation in the post-Napoleonic era. It was also about men and men's roles in public and private life; about nation and nationalism; about race and the 'civilizing mission.' "" - Claire G. Moses, University of Maryland""" From the Salon to the Schoolroom makes an important and original contribution to the literature on France and French women. Rogers shows that girls' education was not so much about girls as about women and the role presumed proper for them. It was also about the family and the hopes and anxieties that French men and women placed on the family to reconstruct the nation in the post-Napoleonic era. It was also about men and men's roles in public and private life; about nation and nationalism; about race and the 'civilizing mission.' - Claire G. Moses, University of Maryland Author InformationRebecca Rogers is Maitre de Conferences in history at the Universite Marc Bloch Strasbourg. Her first book, Les Demoiselles de la Legion d'Honneur. Les Maisons d'education de la Legion d'honneur au dix-neuvieme siecle, was published in France in 1992. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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