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Flora White : In the Vanguard of Gender Equity.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (229 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498542395
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Flora WhiteDDC classification:
  • 973.092
LOC classification:
  • HQ1412.M675 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 A Good Name -- 2 Nature Weeps -- 3 Finding Her Voice -- 4 The New Education -- 5 Visionary Women -- 6 A Redeemer -- 7 Doing "Precisely as One Pleases" -- 8 The Best of Her Generation -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: This study examines the origins of the progressive education movement through the lens of the life of Flora White (1860-1948), an educator who worked to promote the physical and intellectual growth of girls and young women. It analyzes the role of women in the movement and how marginalized women dealt with powerful men to advance their own agency.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 A Good Name -- 2 Nature Weeps -- 3 Finding Her Voice -- 4 The New Education -- 5 Visionary Women -- 6 A Redeemer -- 7 Doing "Precisely as One Pleases" -- 8 The Best of Her Generation -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

This study examines the origins of the progressive education movement through the lens of the life of Flora White (1860-1948), an educator who worked to promote the physical and intellectual growth of girls and young women. It analyzes the role of women in the movement and how marginalized women dealt with powerful men to advance their own agency.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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