Week 10 Women and Education 

Due Week 11:

readings: Hunter College text #13

projects: watch one of the following films with a colleague--takes notes on what it says about the work of women
films: Heartland
         Hester Street
         Norma Rae
         Nine to Five
         Working Girl
         Alice Doesn't Live here Anymore
         Sounder

response paper topic: Answer question #2 at end of chapter

Internet Resources:

From Social Science Information Gateway.com: a list of links for Women and Education: http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World-cat/womened.html

From the History of Education and Childhood Site, links to information about the history of women in education: http://www.socsci.kun.nl/ped/whp/histeduc/links10w.html

Educators:

Hildegard of Bingen

An award-winning site created for the 900th birthday year: http://tweedledee.ucsb.edu/~kris/music/Hildegard.html

A list of links to materials about Hildegard on the Internet: http://www.millersv.edu/~english/homepage/duncan/medfem/hildeg.html

Judith Sargent Murray

A short biography of Judith Sargent Murray: http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/march99/murray3.html

Part of PBS Liberty series, a short article on education and the virtuous republic: http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle/virtuousrep.html

Mary Wollstonecradft

From About.com: links to information on Mary Wollstonecraft: http://womenshistory.about.com/homework/womenshistory/library/bio/blwollstonecraft.htm

About About.com: a description and link to full text of "A Vindication of the Rights of Women": http://womenshistory.about.com/homework/womenshistory/library/weekly/aa082099.htm