Elizabeth Edwards - Women and Teacher Training Colleges 1900-1960 [2000] [A]

Women in Teacher Training Colleges, 1900-1960 is an intricate and fascinating investigation of the lives and experiences of women in these important educational institutions of the early twentieth century. The book provides an overview of the historical context of the development of the colleges, using detailed case studies of three colleges: Homerton, Avery Hill and Bishop Otter.
Drawing on a wealth of archival material, primary and secondary sources, and on the oral testimonies of former pupils and staff, the book examines the following key themes:
*the changing social class of women students
*the colleges culture of femininity drawn from the family organization and social practices of the middle-class home
*the conflicting public and private roles of the woman principal
*the role of the college staff and the residential context of college life
*women's sexuality
*the last days of the womens colleges.Women in Teacher Training Colleges, 1900-1960 is an essential contribution to women's history and gives a unique insight into this neglected aspect of women's experiences in the twentieth century.

About the Author
Elizabeth Edwards is an historian by training but has been fully absorbed by anthropology. She works on the relationship between photography, anthropology and history, especially in the Pacific, on cross-cultural visual histories, on photographs as material culture and the history of collecting and institutional practices. Until 2005 she was Curator of Photographs at Pitt Rivers Museum and lecturer in Visual Anthropology at University of Oxford, and then Senior Research Fellow at the University of the Arts London (LCC) until 2011. She has recently taken up the post of Research Professor and Director of the Photographic History Research Centre at De Montfort University. As well as being project leader for PhotoCLEC she is further developing her work on the multi-sensory nature of the photograph, and working on photography and historical imagination in late nineteenth and early twentieth century England. The monograph will be published by Duke University Press in February 2012. She is currently Vice-President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.