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ERIC Number: EJ658289
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0046-760X
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A Window in the Prison-House: Women's Education and the Politics of Social Reform in Nineteenth Century Western India.
Kosambi, Meera
History of Education, v29 n5 p429-42 Sep 2000
Focuses on the history of women's education in western India during the nineteenth century addressing the issues of home education versus school education, gender construction and the school curriculum, and nationalism and women's education. Discusses a woman's position as a point of conflict between the patriarchal family structure and women's education. (CMK)
Descriptors: Educational History, Family Structure, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Higher Education, Nationalism, Social Change, Social History, Womens Education, Womens History
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: India
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