Includes bibliographical references and index.

Women, education, and agency, 1600-2000 : an historical perspective / Sarah Jane Aiston -- Self-tuition and the intellectual achievement of early modern women : Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) / Barbara Bulckaert -- Women and agency: the educational legacy of Mary Wollstonecraft / Joyce Senders Pedersen -- Scientific women : their contribution to culture in England in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Ruth Watts -- Ramabai and Rokeya : the history of gendered social capital in India / Barnita Bagchi -- Russian women in European universities, 1864-1900 / Marianna Muravyeva -- "Knowledge as the necessary food of the mind" : Charlotte Mason's philosophy of education / Stephanie Spencer -- A woman's challenge: the voice of Şükufe Nihal in the modernisation of Turkey / Aynur Soydan Erdemir -- Femininity and mathematics at Cambridge circa 1900 / Claire Jones -- Thinking women: international education for peace and equality, 1918-1930 / Katherine Storr -- London's feminist teachers and the urban political landscape / Jane Martin -- Feminist criminology in Britain circa 1920-1960 : education, agency, and activism outside the academy / Anne Logan -- Thinking feminist in 1963 : challenges from Betty Friedan and the U.S. President's Commission on the Status of Women / Linda Eisenmann -- "Enhancing the quality of the educational experience" : female activists and U.S. university and college women's centres / Sylvia Ellis and Helen Mitchell.

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