How 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

Provocative assessment of how new ideas about motherhood and domesticity in pre-Revolutionary France helped women demand social and political equality later on

This edited collection addresses the nexus of gender, power relations, and education from various angles while covering a broad spectrum of the history of educa

In this well-written and imaginatively structured book, Carol E. Harrison brings to life a cohort of nineteenth-century French men and women who argued that a r