Women, Power Relations, and Education in a Transnational World

This edited collection addresses the nexus of gender, power relations, and education from various angles while covering a broad spectrum of the history of education in both time and geographic space. Taking the position that historians of gender and education find the concept of transnationalism very useful for a deeper understanding of historical change and situations, the editors and their contributors employ a transnational perspective to explore the complex and entangled dimensions of a history of education that transcends regional and national boundaries through a variety of approaches (e.g. through exploring new fields of research, sources, questions, perspectives for interpretation, or methodologies). In doing so, they also undertake to open up a transnational global perspective for the historiography of education.

Features contributions from established scholars and experts on the history of education and gender history from twelve countries

1. Introduction.- 2. "The Measure to Rank the Nations in Terms of Wealth and Power?" Transnationalism and the Circulation of the "Idea" of Women's Education.- 3. The Differentials of Gendered Social Capital in Indian Literacy-Educational Activism, 1880-1930: Renewing Transnational Approaches.- 4. French Catholic Teaching Sisters Go International: Rereading Histories of Girls' Education Through a Political and Transnational Lens.- 5. Writing Home to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions: Missionary Women Abroad Narrate Their Precarious Worlds, 1869-1915.- 6. Julia Lloyd and the Kindergarten: A Local Case Study in a Transnational Setting.- 7. The Transnational Roots of the Froebel Educational Institute, London.- 8. The Greeks Girls' School Arsakeion as a Case Study in its National Role during the Balkan Wars (1912-1914).- 9. Suffragist Mother-Teachers: Familial and Professional Identity Through the Entangled Historical Lens of Mandatory Palestine, 1918-1926.- 10. WomenEducators' Sojourns Around the British Empire from the Interwar Years to the Mid-Twentieth Century.