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Focusing on the lives and work of women teachers in two rural California counties from 1850 to 1950, Country Schoolwomen explores the social context of teaching, seeking to understand what teaching meant to women teachers, what it provided them, and how it shaped their categories of experience. The women we meet in this study taught in isolated one- and two-room schoolhouses and in the migrant schools of the Depression years; many of them witnessed the profound upheavals brought about by the two world wars. Through the lens of their lives, the author examines the growth of state control over schools, the irrevocable impact of powerful economic and political changes on small-town life, and the patterns of racism that have divided California from the time of the earliest European settlement.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Country Schoolwomen
• Subtitle: Teaching in Rural California, 1850-1950
• Author: Kathleen Weiler
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 356
• EAN: 9780804730044
• ISBN: 0804730040
• ID: 04716645
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 680 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 1998

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