From the Salon to the Schoolroom by Rebecca Rogers
Examines the secondary school system for girls in nineteenth-century France and uncovers how that system contributed to the fashioning of the French bourgeois woman. This book 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 makes an important and original contribution to the literature on France and French womenRogers shows that girls’ education was not so much about girls as about women and the role presumed proper for them. It was about the family and the hopes and anxieties that French men and women placed on the family to reconstruct the nation in the post-Napoleonic era. It was also about men and men’s roles in public and private life; about nation and nationalism; and about race and the ‘civilizing mission.’”
—Claire G. Moses, University of Maryland
“In this lively piece of writing, one appreciates the interplay between general theoretical considerations and archival investigation. Rebecca Rogers excels in describing how the structure of schools and their network relates to the formation of social and individual identities.”
—Alain Corbin, University of Paris, Panthéon Sorbonne
“Rogers fills an important gap in French women’s history between Old Regime salons and the establishment of universal public education for both girls and boys under the Third Republic.”
—D. A. Harvey Choice
“Rogers presents her beautifully demarcated argument in three chronologically arranged parts. . . . scholars of girlhood in any nation should find Rogers’ insights helpful and can appreciate her interweaving of bourgeois girls’ history with national development.”
—Laureen Tedesco Nineteenth Century Studies
“This is a well-written, well-researched, and well-argued work. Rather than a narrowly conceived institutional history of particular establishments, Rebecca Rogers has produced a far broader, more ambitious analysis of social and familial change during the course of the nineteenth century, as made manifest by changes in the schooling of bourgeois girls.”
—Sharif Gemie American Historical Review
“Rebecca Rogers’ well-crafted and deeply researched study of the educational institutions available to bourgeois girls in nineteenth-century France intersects with a number of current debates about gender norms and the place of women in public life.”
—Denise Z. Davidson European History Quarterly
“The book is impressively and imaginatively researched.”
—Jennifer Heuer French Politics, Culture & Society
Rebecca Rogers is Professor in the History of Education at the Université Paris Descartes. Her first book, Les demoiselles de la Légion d’honneur: Les maisons d’éducation de la Légion d’honneur au dix-neuvième siècle, was published in France in 1992.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780271024912 |
| ISBN 10 | 0271024917 |
| Title | From the Salon to the Schoolroom |
| Author | Rebecca Rogers |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Year published | 2008-02-15 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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