This book chronicles 300 years of women's education during this time. Barabara Whitehead examines this history from a feminist perspective, pointing to the subversive actions of the women of this period that led to the formation of academia as we know it.
Chapter 1 Learning the Virtues, Sharon T. Strocchia; Chapter 2 Equal in Opportunity?, Sharon D. Michalove; Chapter 3 The Pattern of Perfect Womanhood, Shimizu Stacey; Chapter 4 The Rei(g)ning of Women’s Tongues in English Books of Instruction and Rhetorics, Catherine R. Eskin; Chapter 5 The Literacy of Jewish Women in Early Modern Italy, Howard Adelman; Chapter 6 To Educate or Instruct?, Colleen Fitzgerald; Chapter 7 “Its Frequent Visitor”, Carolyn C. Lougee; Chapter 8 ‘A Knowledge Speculative and Practical’, Adrianna E. Bakos;
