A Separate Sisterhood examines the personal lives and professional accomplishments of a group of wise and persistent women whose collective work in the early twentieth century crucially influenced educational reform in the New South. Working at the intersection of race, gender, and class, these women fought for educational improvement in a region of exceptional poverty, rural isolation, and racial prejudice. Their work, explored collectively for the first time in this groundbreaking text, demonstrates the roots of early ...
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A Separate Sisterhood examines the personal lives and professional accomplishments of a group of wise and persistent women whose collective work in the early twentieth century crucially influenced educational reform in the New South. Working at the intersection of race, gender, and class, these women fought for educational improvement in a region of exceptional poverty, rural isolation, and racial prejudice. Their work, explored collectively for the first time in this groundbreaking text, demonstrates the roots of early advances in southern literacy education, vocational education, community outreach education, adult education, equal educational opportunity, curricular integrity, public support, and teacher pay equity.
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Publisher:
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published:
2002
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
13353446698
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Near Fine. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with delivery confirmation. Slight crease upper right-hand corner. Near fine condition. Volume 26, History of Schools and Schooling.; History of Schools and Schooling; Vol. 26; Black-and-white photographs; 8vo.; xv, 213 pages;
