Table Of ContentGLOBAL HISTORIES OF EDUCATION
Women,
Power Relations,
and Education in a
Transnational World
Edited by
Christine Mayer
Adelina Arredondo
Global Histories of Education
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Christine Mayer Adelina Arredondo
Editors
Women, Power
Relations,
and Education
in a Transnational
World
Editors
Christine Mayer Adelina Arredondo
Universität Hamburg Universidad Autónoma del Estado de
Hamburg, Germany Morelos
Cuernavaca, México
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Contents
1 Introduction 1
Christine Mayer and Adelina Arredondo
Part I Education, Gender and Transnationalism in
Epistemological and Colonial Contexts
2 “The Measure to Rank the Nations in Terms of
Wealth and Power?” Transnationalism and the
Circulation of the “Idea” of Women’s Education 17
Joyce Goodman
3 The Differentials of Gendered Social Capital in
Indian Literary-Educational Activism, 1880–1930:
Renewing Transnational Approaches 45
Barnita Bagchi
Part II Female Missionary Educators and Border
Crossings
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4 French Catholic Teaching Sisters Go International:
Rereading Histories of Girls’ Education Through a
Political and Transnational Lens 69
Rebecca Rogers
5 Writing Home to the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions: Missionary
Women Abroad Narrate Their Precarious Worlds,
1869–1915 93
Roberta Wollons
Part III Transnational Kindergarten Networks: Women
as Actors and Mediators Across and Within
National Borders
6 Julia Lloyd and the Kindergarten: A Local Case Study
in a Transnational Setting 123
Ruth Watts
7 The Transnational Roots of the Froebel Educational
Institute, London 149
James C. Albisetti
Part IV Transnationalism and Entanglements in Women
Educators’ Life and Sojourn Abroad
8 The Greek Girls’ School Arsakeion as a Case Study
in Its National Role During the Balkan Wars
(1912–1914) 175
Polly Thanailaki
9 Suffragist Mother-Teachers: Familial and Professional
Identity Through the Entangled Historical Lens of
Mandatory Palestine, 1918–1926 197
Tali Tadmor-Shimony
CONTENTS vii
10 Women Educators’ Sojourns Around the British
EmpirefromtheInterwarYearstotheMid-Twentieth
Century 223
Kay Whitehead
Index 249
Notes on Contributors
James C. Albisetti professor of history at the University of Kentucky
since 1979, served on the Executive Committee of ISCHE from 1994–
1999andaspresidentoftheU.S.HistoryofEducationSocietyin2002–
2003. His research centers of nineteenth-century German and European
history, especially of education and women. His most recent publications
are “National Education Systems: Europe,” in Oxford Handbook for the
HistoryofEducation (2019),and“SendingCityChildrentotheCountry:
Vacations in ‘Nature,’ ca. 1870–1900,” in Paedagogica Historica 56, no.
1–2 (2020).
Adelina Arredondo is professor at the Institute of Sciences of Educa-
tion, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (México) and mem-
beroftheNationalSystemofResearchers.Shehasservedintheexecutive
committee of the Mexican Society of History of Education, the National
Council of Educative Research and the International Standing Confer-
ence ofHistoryof Education,whereshehas being Co-convenorof SWG
“Gender and Education” (2011–2016). She is member of various edito-
rial committees of international scientific journals and has published nine
books, many book chapters and articles in international journals about
history of education, educational policies and gender and education. Her
current research is about history of secular and laîque education.
Barnita Bagchi istenuredSeniorAssistantProfessorinComparativeLit-
erature at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Educated at Jadavpur
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University, India, and the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, she has
published widely on utopia, histories of transnational and women’s ed-
ucation, and women’s writing in western Europe and south Asia. She
was recently a British Academy Visiting Fellow at Lancaster University,
UK. Among her recent publications are a 2019 Special Issue of Open
Library of Humanities on Utopian Art and Literature from Modern
India that she initiated and edited, with an article by her, “Satinath
Bhaduri’s Bengali Novels Jagari (The Vigil) and Dhorai Charit Manas
as Utopian Literature.” http://doi.org/10.16995/olh.407; and a book
chapter, “Analyzing Toru Dutt’s Oeuvre Today: How a Transnational
Literary-Educational Case from Colonial India Can Enrich Our Concep-
tion of Transnational History,” in E. Fuchs and E. Roldán Vera (eds.),
TheTransnationalintheHistoryofEducation,PalgraveMacmillan,2019,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17168-1_7.
Joyce Goodman isProfessorofHistoryofEducationattheUniversityof
WinchesterandchercheureassociéeatCERLIS.eu.Herresearchexplores
how women’s work in and for education during the interwar period em-
bracedinternationalismandempireanddrewoncomparativemethodolo-
gies. She is currently working on a biography of the artist Rosa Branson.
JoyceisanhonorarymemberoftheISCHEandofNetwork17ofEERA.
Shehaspublishednumerousarticlesandchapters.Hermostrecentbooks
include Girls’ Secondary Education in the Western World (Palgrave, 2014
pbk), edited with James Albisetti and Rebecca Rogers, and Women and
Education: Major Themes in Education (Routledge, 2011, 4 volumes),
edited with Jane Martin. For her publications see www.joycegoodman.
org.uk, she tweets as @joycehisted.
Christine Mayer isProfessorEmeritusofTheoryofEducationandGen-
derattheUniversitätHamburg.Shehaswrittennumerousarticlesoned-
ucation,vocationaleducationandgender,andongenderanthropologyin
the era of Enlightenment. Her current research focuses on the transcul-
tural transfer of educational ideas. She was a long-standing member of
the Executive Committee of the International Standing Conference for
the History of Education (ISCHE) and she is a member of the edito-
rialboardofPaedagogicaHistoricaaswellasotherinternationaladvisory
boards of journals. Recent publications include: “Education reform vi-
sions and new forms of gymnastics and dance as elements of a new body
culture and ‘body education’ (1890–1930),” History of Education 47,
4 (2018) and “Transnational and Transcultural Perspectives: Approaches
