By Tanya Fitzgerald, Elizabeth M. Smyth
This assortment lines ladies educators' expert lives and the level to which they challenged the gendered terrain they occupied. The emphasis is put on women's old public voices and their very own interpretation in their 'selves' and 'lives' of their fight to workout authority in schooling.
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Through an analysis of such core documents as vow formulae, constitutions and customs, historians can gain insights into a world of women long separated from the secular world by their enclosed living spaces (their convents) and their dress. Religious congregations were established out of perceived societal and religious need. Orders such as Dominicans and Carmelites were the women’s branches of male organizations. Others were purposefully established to parallel that of a male organization. 11 The circumstances surrounding a congregation’s foundation and purpose contributed to the types of governance structure in which it operated.
As Kay Whitehead has shown in Chapter 7, Mary Gutteridge, an Australian educator, also gained overseas qualifications. 64 Transnational connections made and maintained by women graduates were critical to the development of scholarly expertise and intellectual authority. Professional and scholarly connections made between women academics in New Zealand, the United States and England gave women a unique opportunity to gain recognition for their skills, knowledge and achievements. Home Science was an academically respectable area of women’s work.
This hostel was designed to provide practical training in household and institutional management and replicate domestic conditions that students might encounter in their own future homes. As a domestic environment, Studholme House was spatially separated from the university; it was a private space that was restricted to women and ideologically separated from the scholarly world of the university. Studholme House proved an attractive and relatively inexpensive option for accommodation for women in a university town.
