ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |26 pages
The Pattern of Perfect Womanhood
Feminine Virtue, Pattern Books and the Fiction of the Clothworking Woman
chapter |26 pages
‘A Knowledge Speculative and Practical'
The Dilemma of Midwives' Education in Early Modern Europe
