Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-199) and index.
Contents
Introduction : reconsidering women teachers -- Can elementary schoolteaching be a career? -- Women's rewards in nineteenth-century American schoolrooms -- Autonomy in the texts of teachers' lives -- Imagining teachers : gender, race, and identity in the 1950s -- Teachers' perspectives on the mother's gaze -- Teachers' talk : community and conflict -- Conclusion : gender, discourse, and feminism.