Girls' Secondary Education in the Western World / Secondary Education in a Changing World (PDF)

James Albisetti, University of Kentucky, USA
Joyce Goodman, The University of Winchester, UK
Rebecca Rogers, Université Paris Descartes (Paris 5), France
Hilda Amsing, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Helena C. Araújo, University of Porto, Portugal
Krassimira Daskalova, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
E. Thomas Ewing, Virginia Tech, USA
Consuelo Flecha, University of Seville, Spain
Laura Fonseca, University of Porto, Portugal
Eliane Gubin, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Juliane Jacobi, University of Potsdam, Germany
Agneta Linné, Örebro University, Sweden
Cristina Rocha, University of Porto, Portugal
Simonetta Soldani, University of Florence, Italy
Mineke van Essen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

"This excellent anthology on girls' secondary education across Europe brings together a transatlantic cast of contributors. The authors, all pioneering scholars in their fields, address historical developments over 300 years in areas that include most of Europe. Their essays are carefully synchronized, both with respect to earlier historiography and with an eye to the contextual settings religion, nationalism, and colonial expansion in which educators could establish schooling opportunities for girls beyond the primary level." - Karen Offen, Historian and Senior Scholar, The Michelle Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University, USA

"Written by leading scholars in their fields, this impressive study of girls' secondary education in Europe has filled a significant gap in the history of education and in women's and gender history." - Ruth Watts, Emeritus Professor of History of Education, University of Birmingham, UK

"This important and stimulating volume brings together specialists in the history of girls' secondary education in more than 15 European settings . . . Much of the scholarship presented has not been available previously in English, and the editors - who are American and English - have admirably assembled contributions from colleagues in continental Europe and encouraged contributors to address certain common themes, presented in the 'Historical Introduction.''' - Aspasia

"Though valuable for its summaries of foreign-language historiographies, this volume's greatest merit lies in placing side by side the causes, consequences, and factual milestones of the growth of girls' secondary schooling in European countries ranging from Scandinavia and Belgium to Bulgaria and Russia. Historians will find this volume an invaluable reference in their teaching as well as a starting point for thinking comparatively in their research." - H-Education

"The editors' attention to Enlightenment debates and early nineteenth