Women, Power Relations, and Education in a Transnational World (eBook)

This edited collection addresses the nexus of gender, power relations, and education from various angles while covering a broad spectrum of the history of education in both time and geographic space. Taking the position that historians of gender and education find the concept of transnationalism very useful for a deeper understanding of historical change and situations, the editors and their contributors employ a transnational perspective to explore the complex and entangled dimensions of a history of education that transcends regional and national boundaries through a variety of approaches (e.g. through exploring new fields of research, sources, questions, perspectives for interpretation, or methodologies). In doing so, they also undertake to open up a transnational global perspective for the historiography of education. 

Christine Mayer is Professor Emeritus of Theory of Education and Gender at the University of Hamburg, Germany. She has written numerous articles on education, vocational education, gender, and on women's and children's work in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as on the relationship between educational thoughts and gender anthropology in the era of Enlightenment. Her current research focuses on the transnational and transcultural circulation and transfer of educational ideas and practices.

Adelina Arredondo is Professor at the Institute of Sciences of Education, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, México, and a member of the National System of Researchers. She has served in the executive committees of the Mexican Society of History of Education, the National Council of Educative Research, and the International Standing Conference of History of Education, where she has been Co-convenor of SWG 'Gender and Education' (2011-2016) and of the SWG 'History of Secular (laic) Education' (2017-2022).