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In 1909, when she became the superintendent of the Chicago schools,
Ella Flagg Young proclaimed that women were "destined to rule the
schools of every city". After all, women accounted for nearly
eighty percent of all teachers by 1910 and their ascendance into
formal school leadership positions could not be far behind. After
World War II, however, a backlash against single women educators
and a rigid realignment of gender roles in schools contributed to a
rapid decline of women school administrators across the country, a
decline from which there has been little recovery to the present.
Destined to Rule the Schools tells the story of women and school
leadership in America from the common school era to the present. In
a broad sense, it offers an historical account of how teaching
became women's work and the school superintendency men's. Blount
explores how power in school employment has been structured
unequally by gender. It focuses on the superintendency because an
important component of the effort to establish control of schools
has occurred in contesting the definition of this position.
Blount (curriculum and instruction, Iowa State U.) takes her title
from a proclamation by the superintendent of the Chicago schools in
1909, that because nearly 80% of teachers were women, they would
soon dominate administration as well. She describes the era, and
how backlash against single women e
Jackie M. Blount offers a history of school workers in the United
States who have desired persons of the same sex as well as those
who have transgressed conventional gender bounds. Despite recent
impressive social and political gains for lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and transgender (LGBT) persons, schools remain a zone of great
vulnerability for the larger LGBT movement. This thoroughly
researched, vivid, and engaging book details the largely untold
story of how this state of affairs developed during the twentieth
century. It also profiles some of the remarkable people who have
risked their careers by brilliantly organizing for LGBT rights,
openly challenging discriminatory laws and practices, and educating
their communities about conditions for LGBT school workers and
students alike.
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