Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Womens's history and the history of women teachers; 2. Gender and the growth of the educational state: California, 1850-1940; 3. Culture, schools, and community: Tulare and Kings counties; 4. Subjugated knowledge: lives of women teachers, 1860-1920; 5. Memory and identity: lives of women teachers, 1920-1940; 6. The work of teaching in rural schools, 1920-1940; 7. Men take control, 1940-1950; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Kathleen Weiler is Associate Professor of Education at Tufts University. She is the author of Women Teaching for Change.

Reviews

"A fascinating history of rural women teachers in California. Her major achievement is to successfully integrate genres that are too often separated: critical and feminist theory, life histories, the political economy of schooling, quantitative demography, and institutional history." - David Tyack, Stanford University Country Schoolwomen is feminist scholarship at its best..." - Pacific Historical Review