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Originally published in 1985. This book explores issues around
education for women and uses the British experience as an example
of what adult education in its variety can offer to women in
breaking traditional moulds. The text raises questions about where
women are, where they might be, and how education as a whole can be
used by women, for women. The critique of adult education is both
theoretical and useful for practice, including many case studies
from areas as diverse as the education of minority women, setting
up of women's education centres, working with childminders, and
courses at the Open University.
An examination of the growth and different varieties of anchoritism
throughout medieval Europe. The practice of anchoritism - religious
enclosure which was frequently solitary and voluntarily embraced,
very often in a permanent capacity - was widespread in many areas
of Europe throughout the middle ages. Originating in the desert
withdrawal of the earliest Christians and prefiguring even the
monastic life, anchoritism developed into an elite vocation which
was popular amongst both men and women. Within this reclusive
vocation, the anchorite would withdraw, either alone or with others
like her or him, to a small cell or building, very frequently
attached to a church or other religious institution, where she or
he would - theoretically at least - remain locked up until death.
In the later period it was a vocation which was particularly
associated with pious laywomen who appear to have opted for this
extreme way of life in their thousands throughout western Europe,
often as an alternative to marriage orremarriage, allowing them,
instead, to undertake the role of "living saint" within the
community. This volume brings together for the first time in
English much of the most important European scholarship on the
subject to date. Tracing the vocation's origins from the Egyptian
deserts of early Christian activity through to its multiple
expressions in western Europe, it also identifies some of those
regions - Wales and Scotland, for example - where thephenomenon
does not appear to have been as widespread. As such, the volume
provides an invaluable resource for those interested in the
theories and practices of medieval anchoritism in particular, and
the development of medieval religiosity more widely. Dr LIZ HERBERT
MCAVOY is Professor of Medieval Literature at Swansea University.
CONTRIBUTORS: Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, Gabriela Signori, M. Sensi,
G. Cavero Dominguez, P. L'Hermite-Leclercq, Mari Hughes-Edwards,
Colman O Clabaigh, Anna McHugh, Liz Herbert McAvoy.
Originally published in 1985. This book explores issues around
education for women and uses the British experience as an example
of what adult education in its variety can offer to women in
breaking traditional moulds. The text raises questions about where
women are, where they might be, and how education as a whole can be
used by women, for women. The critique of adult education is both
theoretical and useful for practice, including many case studies
from areas as diverse as the education of minority women, setting
up of women's education centres, working with childminders, and
courses at the Open University.
Examines the various aspects of the relationships between mothers
and education at different levels in the education system. In
particular, mothers of young children in relation to various
educational policies are looked at in interaction with their
children's schools and teachers.
Until recently, the figure of the medieval anchorite and the
underlying ideological concepts that framed her day-to-day
existence have escaped detailed examination, despite the
anchorite's importance to the study of medieval culture. This
collection brings together leading scholars in the field of gender
and anchoritic studies in order to examine anchoritic enclosure
from a variety of different perspectives. In so doing, "Anchorites,
Wombs, and Tombs" offers illuminating conclusions about how the
phenomenon of anchoritism was affected by, and in turn, influenced
contemporary notions of gender difference.
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