This book draws on recent deconstructions around the idea of femininity as a social, racial and class construct and explores the diversity of spaces that may be defined as educational that range from institutional contexts to family, to professional outlooks, to racial identity, to defining community and religious groupings. It explores how notions of femininity change across time and place, and within individual lives. Such changes take place at the interface of external forces and individual agency. The application of the notion of femininity that assumes a consistent definition of the term is interrogated by the authors, leading to a discussion of the rich possibilities for new directions in research into womens lives across time, place, and individual life histories.
1. Shifting femininities: multifaceted realms of historical educational inquiry- Tim Allender and Stephanie Spencer.- 2. Unnatural Women and Natural Science: changing femininity and expanding educational sites through womens pursuit of natural science- Ruth Watts.- 3. African American Women, Femininity and their History In Physical Education and Sports in American Higher Education: from World War I through the mid-century- Linda M. Perkins.- 4. Suzanne Karpel?s encounters in Indochina and Europe in 1931: multiple femininities, colonial relations and educative sites- Joyce Goodman.- 5. Troubling Gender Relations with the Appointment of That Lady Inspector in Post-suffrage South Australia- Kay Whitehead.- 6. Shifting Spaces of Femininity: the everyday life of girl guides in Hong Kong 1921-1941- Stella Meng Wang.- 7. I turned into the boorish, stiff, unpleasant teenager that he expected, and that was what I immediately therefore became: negotiating the risk of femininity in teenage girls reading in 1960s Britain- Stephanie Spencer.- 8. A great builder: female enterprise, architectural ambitilcX
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