Schooling the daughters of Marianne : textbooks and the socialization of girls in modern French primary schools /
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| Author / Creator: | Clark, Linda L., 1942- |
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| Imprint: | Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1984. |
| Description: | ix, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series on European social history SUNY series on European social history |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/622493 |
| Summary: | This first book-length study of girls' primary education in France gives a concrete picture of how Frenchwomen were, and are, prepared for their roles in society.<br> <br> <br> <br> Until the 1960s, the primary school provided the only formal education for the majority of French children. Long recognized as a major inculcator of patriotic and moral values, the French primary school also played the vital role of preparing girls for their expected adult lives.<br> <br> <br> <br> Linda L. Clark describes in detail this socialization process. By analyzing a wide variety of documents from 1870 to the present--textbooks, curriculum materials, students' notebooks, examination questions, inspectors' reports, and teachers' memoirs--she has uncovered not only what was taught to girls, but the social and political assumptions that lay behind the primary school's messages about feminine personalities and activities.<br> <br> <br> <br> The book goes on to establish the relationship of feminine images to important aspects of French social, economic, and political life. A chapter on the preparation of girls for the world of work, for example, reveals the discrepancy between formal teaching about "femininity" and women's actual participation in society. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | ix, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Bibliography: p. 205-217. |
| ISBN: | 0873957873 0873957865 |