Bending the Future to Their Will: Civic Women, Social Education, and Democracy

by O.L. Davis Jr.

Book Overview

This lively and thought-provoking collective biography uncovers the contributions of past women educators who promoted a distinctive vision of citizenship education. A distinguished group of scholars, including editors Margaret Smith Crocco and O. L. Davis, Jr., consider the lives and perspectives of eleven women educators and social activists--Jane Addams, Mary Sheldon Barnes, Mary Ritter Beard, Rachel Davis DuBois, Hazel Hertzberg, Alice Miel, Lucy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847691128
• ISBN13: 9780847691128
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"