Educational Institutions or Extended Families? The Reconstruction of Gender in Women's Colleges in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12232179 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Edwards (0000-0003-2973-8749) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17-35 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0954-0253 • E-ISSN: 1360-0516 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0954025900020102 |
| OpenAlex | W2058909087 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This article aims to develop our theorisation of gender as a category of analysis in education, by examining how the meaning of gender has been socially constructed historically within specific educational contexts. A post‐structuralist perspective is used to show how gender meaning is constructed both from competing and conflicting discourses within these specific historical contexts, and also by the transformation of existing discourses into new contexts. It first discusses how the discourse of social practice and family organisation in the Victorian middle‐class home were translated from their domestic setting and transformed to provide new meanings in the institutional context of women's colleges. The translation and transformation of these domestic and familial discourses was relatively straightforward; but the construction of the new role of the woman principal from the discourses of Victorian middle‐class femininity was always highly problematic. The second part of the article examines the difficulties faced by women principals in constructing their dual gender role as both father and mother of the institutional families which they served. Finally I attempt to decode the homoerotic friendships which some principals formed in order to express the emotional and sexual needs of their own feminity
Context (archaeology · Discourse analysis · Femininity · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Middle class · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Sexual orientation · Sociology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Education Studies Worldwide · History · Law · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2020 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |