Description: Considering the role of women as educational policy-makers, and in particular focusing on 29 women members of the London School Board, this book examines the link between private lives and public practice in Victorian and Edwardian England. These political activists were among the first women in England to be elected to positions of political responsibility. Key concerns in the book are issues such as gender and power, and gender and welfare.
Brief description: Jane Martin is a lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Nene College, Northampton, UK.
Review Quotes: "Martin is at her most original when discussing women's politics." Albion