Schools, discipline and community
Diary-writing and schoolgirl culture in late nineteenth-century France
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4347887 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Rogers (0000-0002-9163-8581, University of Iowa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 525-555 |
| Publication date | 1995-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612029500200188 |
| OpenAlex | W4237733641, W2060960661 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article uses the case-study of one French boarding school in the nineteenth century to explore the characteristics of schoolgirl culture. Beginning with an analysis of the multiple effects of constant discipline within the school, the author argues for the existence of rules that sought to develop a sense of moral community among students. The teachers used the ideal of community to transmit feminine but not necessarily domestic values, particularly the virtues of obedience, selflessness and interdependence. But students did not passively absorb these institutional messages. The existence of a student diary, written from 1875 to 1881, allows the author to explore how students absorbed, transformed and challenged both the implicit and explicit messages within schools. The very act of writing her daily life allowed the diary writer, Eugénie Servant, to structure her sense of feminine identity. While Eugénie posed no radical challenge to the prevailing domestic ideology communicated within her school, through her writing, she reworked cultural messages to highlight her own special gifts. This case-study offers an insight, then, into how individuals could refashion the parameters of school life, allowing forms of autonomy that raise questions about the realities of French bourgeois domestic life
Aesthetics · Art · Autonomy · Bourgeoisie · Creed · Ideology · Indoctrination · Media studies · Obedience · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Servant · Sociology · Education, sociology, and vocational training · European Political History Analysis · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 2021 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |