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Review Article: The education of girls and women in the nineteenth century

Before the 1970s, the theme of the education of girls and women in the nineteenth century received little attention within either the history of education or the sociology of education. The 1970s and early '80s witnessed a number of publications relating to this theme, even if these publications were never integrated into the mainstream thought of the two disciplines. Part of the explanation for the boom of publications over this last decade is undoubtedly related to the impact of the women's movement, which helped to create a greater awareness about the inequalities girls and women experience in education, both in the past and in the present day. Most of these publications have been written by women, and while some of these female writers adopt a feminist perspective, others do not. The three books on the education of girls and women in the nineteenth century under review, then, appear after a decade of increasing interest in the issue. The first, by Bryant, is unsympathetic to some of the questions raised by the present-day women's movement and by present-day feminist writers, while those by Burstyn and Dyhouse are not.