Originally published in 1987 this title was first submitted as a doctoral dissertation at the University of California Berkeley in 1974. Completed just as the years of expansion in higher education were drawing to a close it reflects the growing doubts of the period as to the ability of formal education provision alone to effect major changes in the distribution of socio-economic privilege at the group level whether as between the sexes classes or ethnic groups. Reforms in women’s education had traditionally been dealt with as a small part of the women’s emancipation movement. This book approaches the education reforms in a different way and begins with the question of which social groups participated in the movement. Seen from this point of view a primary interest of the reforms is the function they served in promoting a redefinition of the status and roles of a social elite. |The Reform of Girls' Secondary and Higher Education in Victorian England A Study of Elites and Educational Change | Education
