Review of Those Good Gertrudes: A social history of women teachers in America

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  • Jackie M. Blount Ohio State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14507/er.v23.1978

Author Biography

Jackie M. Blount, Ohio State University

Jackie M. Blount is Professor of Educational Studies at Ohio State University. She has written Destined to Rule the Schools: Women and the Superintendency, 1873-1995 (SUNY Press, 1998) and Fit to Teach: Same-Sex Desire, Gender, and School Work in the Twentieth Century (SUNY Press, 2005). Her work has been published in journals such as Harvard Educational Review, Educational Administration Quarterly, and Review of Educational Research. Currently, she is President-Elect of the History of Education Society.

References

Clifford, G. J. (2014). Those Good Gertrudes: A Social History of Women Teachers in America: Author’s annotated introduction to manuscript collections. [Online] Available: https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/sites/default/files/books_pdfs/good_gertrudes_supplemental_material_0.pdf

Clifford, G. J. (2011). Serendipity, or so it would seem. In W. J. Urban (Ed.), Leaders in the Historical Study of American Education (pp. 21-31). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

Clifford, G. J. (1995). “Equally in View”: The University of California, Its Women, and the Schools. Berkeley, CA: Center for Studies in Higher Education and Institute of Governmental Studies Press.

Clifford, G. J. (1989). Lone Voyagers: Academic Women in Coeducational Universities, 1870-1937. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York.

Clifford, G. J. (1968). The Sane Positivist: A Biography of Edward L. Thorndike. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.

Pestalozzi, J. H. (1885). Leonard and Gertrude (Eva Channing, Trans). Washington, D.C.: Heath.

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Published

2016-03-30

How to Cite

Blount, J. M. (2016). Review of Those Good Gertrudes: A social history of women teachers in America. Education Review, 23. https://doi.org/10.14507/er.v23.1978

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