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The Feminization of Teaching: “Romantic Sexism” and American Protestant Denominationalism - A. D. Mayo, Southern Women in the Recent Educational Movement in the South Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978 [1892 U. S. Government Printing Office, 1st ed.] 309 + xx iii pp. $17.50 - Nancy Hoffman (ed.). Woman's “True” Profession: Voices from the History of Teaching. Old Westbury: The Feminist Press, 1981. 352 pp. $17.95 (cloth) $6.95 (paper).

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Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Joan Jacobs Brumberg*
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Cornell University
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , Fall 1983 , pp. 379 - 384
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1. Hoffman, Nancy, ed., Woman's True Profession: Voices From The History of Teaching (Old Westbury, 1981), XV; Vinovskis, Maris and Bernard, Richard, “The Female School Teacher in Antebellum Massachusetts,” Journal of Social History,” (March 1977): 332–42, and “Beyond Catherine Beecher: Female Education in the Antebellum Period,” SIGNS (Summer 1978): 856–69.Google Scholar

2. Van Gennup, Arnold, The Rites of Passage (London, 1960); Turner, Victor, The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual (Ithaca, 1967).Google Scholar

3. Sklar, Kathryn Kish, Catherine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity (New Haven, 1975); Mattingly, Paul H., The Classless Profession: American Schoolmen in The Nineteenth Century (New York, 1975).Google Scholar

4. Tyack, David B., The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education (Cambridge, Mass., 1974); Tyack, David B. and Stroeber, Myra, “Why Do Women Teach and Men Manage? A Report on Research on Schools,” SIGNS 5:3 (Spring, 1980), 494–503; Sugg, Redding Jr., Motherteacher: The Feminization of American Education (Charlottesville, 1978); Douglas, Ann, The Feminization of American Culture (New York, 1977). See Brumberg, Joan Jacobs and Tomes, Nancy, “Women in The Professions: A Research Agenda for American Historians,” Reviews in American History (June, 1982), for a discussion of feminization in teaching as well as nursing, social work, and librarianship.Google Scholar

5. The standard sociological description of the female-dominated fields is: Etzioni, Amitai, ed., The Semi-Professions and Their Organization: Teachers Nurses, Social Workers (New York, 1969).Google Scholar

6. Carter, Dan and Friedlander, Amy, eds., “Introduction,” Southern Women in the Recent Educational Movement in The South (Baton Rouge, 1981), xxi.Google Scholar

7. Frederickson, George M., The Black Image in The White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817–1914 (New York, 1971), Chapter 4.Google Scholar

8. Mead, Sidney, The Lively Experiment: The Shaping of Christianity in America (New York, 1963), Chapters II & VII provide the classic description of American Protestant denominationalism.Google Scholar