Women’s History of Education and the Archival, Digital, Narrative, Auto/ biographical, Affective and Spatial Turns

Abstract

The regular and numerous historiographical reviews and reflections that have been published on Women’s and Gender History attests to the steady growth, worrying impasses, celebratory assertions, fruitful self-doubts, interactive dialogues, irreconcilable tensions and, above all, the creativity, vitality, and rich diversity in terms of sources, methods and themes that has characterised the field. History of Women’s Education has regularly produced its own historiographical accounts, which have offered a zoomed-in and nuanced depiction of the manifold ways in which education, understood as informal education, self-education, and institutionalised schooling, has shaped both agentic and normative gendered identities, networks, practices, and processes of becoming across geographies and timespans. Read more . . .