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Girls Don't Do Honours
In the 19th century, Irish feminists, like feminists in other countries, won their struggle to open all educational levels and subjects to women. But paradoxes abound today.
Why are we still concerned about the different educational experience of the two sexes?
Why do we talk about "girls' subjects" and "boys' subjects"?
Are these the result of our own attitudes or are they rooted in the actual knowledge and theory studied in various disciplines?
How is it that Irish nuns on the one hand took an active part in providing new educational opportunities for girls and women, and on the other reinforced conformity to the status quo?
These and other paradoical aspects of Irish women's educational experience are examined in the seven studies in this book.
MARY CULLEN lectures in Modern History at St Patrick's College, Maynooth and is a co-director of the Women's Studies Unit in the Irish Foundation for Human Development.
Why are we still concerned about the different educational experience of the two sexes?
Why do we talk about "girls' subjects" and "boys' subjects"?
Are these the result of our own attitudes or are they rooted in the actual knowledge and theory studied in various disciplines?
How is it that Irish nuns on the one hand took an active part in providing new educational opportunities for girls and women, and on the other reinforced conformity to the status quo?
These and other paradoical aspects of Irish women's educational experience are examined in the seven studies in this book.
MARY CULLEN lectures in Modern History at St Patrick's College, Maynooth and is a co-director of the Women's Studies Unit in the Irish Foundation for Human Development.
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Published January 1, 1987
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