Transforming Women's Education

Female seminaries in nineteenth-century America offered middle-class women the rare privilege of training in music and the liberal arts. A music background in particular provided the foundation for a teaching career, one of the few paths open to women. Jewel A. Smith opens the doors of four female s...

وصف كامل

محفوظ في:
التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Smith, Jewel A.
التنسيق: Online
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: University of Illinois Press 2022
الموضوعات:
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:ONIX_20220715_9780252051074_4
الوسوم: إضافة وسم
لا توجد وسوم, كن أول من يضع وسما على هذه التسجيلة!
_version_ 1869520986231013376
author Smith, Jewel A.
author_browse Smith, Jewel A.
author_facet Smith, Jewel A.
author_sort Smith, Jewel A.
collection Directory of Open Access Books
description Female seminaries in nineteenth-century America offered middle-class women the rare privilege of training in music and the liberal arts. A music background in particular provided the foundation for a teaching career, one of the few paths open to women. Jewel A. Smith opens the doors of four female seminaries, revealing a milieu where rigorous training focused on music as an artistic pursuit rather than a social skill. Drawing on previously untapped archives, Smith charts women's musical experiences and training as well as the curricula and instruction available to them, the repertoire they mastered, and the philosophies undergirding their education. She also examines the complex tensions between the ideals of a young democracy and a deeply gendered system of education and professional advancement. An in-depth study of female seminaries as major institutions of learning, Transforming Women's Education illuminates how musical training added to women's lives and how their artistic acumen contributed to American society.
format Online
id doab-20.500.12854ir-88255
institution Directory of Open Access Books
language eng
publishDate 2022
publishDateRange 2022
publishDateSort 2022
publisher University of Illinois Press
publisherStr University of Illinois Press
record_format ojs
spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-882552024-03-29T09:19:16Z Transforming Women's Education Smith, Jewel A. Education bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education Female seminaries in nineteenth-century America offered middle-class women the rare privilege of training in music and the liberal arts. A music background in particular provided the foundation for a teaching career, one of the few paths open to women. Jewel A. Smith opens the doors of four female seminaries, revealing a milieu where rigorous training focused on music as an artistic pursuit rather than a social skill. Drawing on previously untapped archives, Smith charts women's musical experiences and training as well as the curricula and instruction available to them, the repertoire they mastered, and the philosophies undergirding their education. She also examines the complex tensions between the ideals of a young democracy and a deeply gendered system of education and professional advancement. An in-depth study of female seminaries as major institutions of learning, Transforming Women's Education illuminates how musical training added to women's lives and how their artistic acumen contributed to American society. 2022-07-15T14:55:17Z 2022-07-15T14:55:17Z 2019 book ONIX_20220715_9780252051074_4 9780252051074 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88255 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://muse.jhu.edu/book/63938 University of Illinois Press 8c222c2b-fc7a-4b3c-8751-e700b64588c9 9780252051074 292 open access
spellingShingle Education
bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education
Smith, Jewel A.
Transforming Women's Education
title Transforming Women's Education
title_full Transforming Women's Education
title_fullStr Transforming Women's Education
title_full_unstemmed Transforming Women's Education
title_short Transforming Women's Education
title_sort transforming women s education
topic Education
bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education
topic_facet Education
bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education
url ONIX_20220715_9780252051074_4
work_keys_str_mv AT smithjewela transformingwomenseducation