Knowing Women: Origins of Women's Education in Nineteenth-Century Australia

Abstract

1. The woman at the piano: women, education and culture in the nineteenth-century frame of reference 2. The lost ladies' schools of colonial Australia 3. The keystone of the arch? Women and the universities in colonial Australia 4. Inventing the secondary school for girls: Brisbane Girls' Grammar School and Sydney Girls' High School 5. The administration of gender: the case of Victoria's lady teachers, 1850-1900 6. The everyday world of women who taught: some theoretical considerations 7. Daughters of the state: the first compulsory generations, 1870-1890 8. The schooling of outcast girls 9. Notes on writing the history of women's education.