From the Salon to the Schoolroom
How a nation educates its children tells us much about the values of its people. From the Salon to the Schoolroom examines the emerging secondary school system for girls in nineteenth-century France and uncovers how that system contributed to the fashioning of the French bourgeois woman.\ Rebecca Rogers explores the variety of schools-religious and lay-that existed for girls and paints portraits of the women who ran them and the girls who attended them. Drawing upon a wide array of public and...
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How a nation educates its children tells us much about the values of its people. From the Salon to the Schoolroom examines the emerging secondary school system for girls in nineteenth-century France and uncovers how that system contributed to the fashioning of the French bourgeois woman. Rebecca Rogers explores the variety of schools-religious and lay-that existed for girls and paints portraits of the women who ran them and the girls who attended them. Drawing upon a wide array of public and private sources-school programs, prescriptive literature, inspection reports, diaries, and letters-she reveals the complexity of the female educational experience as the schoolroom gradually replaced the salon as the site of French women's special source of influence. From the Salon to the Schoolroom also shows how France as part of its civilizing mission transplanted its educational vision to other settings: the colonies in Africa as well as throughout the Western world, including England and the United States. Historians are aware of the widespread ramifications of Jesuit education, but Rogers shows how French education for girls played into the cross-cultural interactions of modern society, producing an image of the Frenchwoman that continues to tantalize and fascinate the Western world today.
Pt. IReconstructing girls' education in the postrevolutionary period (1800-1830)151Defining bourgeois femininity : voices and debates192Schools, schooling, and the educational experience45Pt. IIWomen, schools, and the politics of culture (1830-1880)773Debating women's place in the consolidating bourgeois order (1830-1848)834Independent women? : teachers and the teaching profession at midcentury1095Vocations and professions : the case of the teaching nun1356Boarding schools : location, ethos, and female identities161Pt. IIINational and political visions of girls' education1977Political battles for women's minds in the second half of the nineteenth century2018Beyond the hexagon : French schools on foreign soils227App. 1The women pedagoguesApp. 2The professions of fathers and husbands of Parisian headmistresses (1810-1880)
\ From the Publisher“The book is impressively and imaginatively researched.”\ —Jennifer Heuer, French Politics, Culture & Society\ \ \
