The Science Education of American Girls: A Historical Perspective
The Science Education of American Girls provides a comparative analysis of the science education of adolescent boys and girls, and analyzes the evolution of girls' scientific interests from the antebellum era through the twentieth century. Kim Tolley expands the understanding of the structural and cultural obstacles that emerged to transform what, in the early nineteenth century, was regarded as a "girl's subject." As the form and content of pre-college science education developed, Tolley...
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Now an independent scholar, Tolley was previously affiliated with the School of Education and Leadership of the U. of Notre Dame de Namur, California. Hers is the first published historical study comparing the science education of adolescent girls and boys. Tolley explores the origins and development of the sciences and mathematics in the formal curricula for females from the American Revolution to the mid-19th century, the rise of natural history study for women from 1840 to 1880, and the structural and cultural obstacles emerging in the early 20th century that discouraged young women from advanced studies of the sciences. Distributed by Taylor and Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
List of IllustrationsList of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Geography Opens The Door 2. Science for Ladies, Classics for Gentlemen 3. "What will be the Use of This Study?" 4. From Arithmetic to Higher Mathematics 5. The Rise of Natural History 6. "Study Nature, Not Books" 7. Other Paths, Other Opportunities 8. Physics for Boys Conclusion Notes Index
