ABSTRACT
In this chapter I want to describe and discuss the culture of femininity which pervaded and underlaid the academic and vocational work of women’s teacher training colleges. I shall show how the family organization of the middle-class home, and some of its social practices, were translated from their domestic setting to provide new meanings in the institutional setting of women’s colleges. I shall also describe some other features of college life – like the May Day Ritual – which were peculiar to the training college environment.
