Rejecting Whiggish interpretations that highlight the progress
liberal reformers made in expanding educational and vocational
opportunities for women, [Burstyn] has adopted a more comprehensive
conceptual framework in which to consider the ideas of both the
proponents and the opponents of advanced female
education....[Her]conceptual framework provides a beneficial means
for comparing male and female education in the nineteenth century;
it also helps one place the accomplishments of educational
reformers such as the Shirreff sisters into the more general
history of women's education in Victorian England.
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Rejecting Whiggish interpretations that highlight the progress
liberal reformers made in expanding educational and vocational
opportunities for women, [Burstyn] has adopted a more comprehensive
conceptual framework in which to consider the ideas of both the
proponents and the opponents of advanced female
education....[Her]conceptual framework provides a beneficial means
for comparing male and female education in the nineteenth century;
it also helps one place the accomplishments of educational
reformers such as the Shirreff sisters into the more general
history of women's education in Victorian England.
*CHOICE*
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