Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- List of Tables (page vi)
- Illustrations (page vii)
- Acknowledgments (page viii)
- Introduction (page 1)
- Chapter One Girls' Primary Education in the Nineteenth Century: Traditions and Innovations (page 5)
- Two Prescribing Values and Behavior: Feminine Images in Textbooks, 1880-1914 (page 26)
- Three The School's Dissemination of Feminine Images and Reactions to Them, 1880-1914 (page 60)
- Four From World War I to World War II: Continuity and Change in Curriculum and Textbooks (page 81)
- Five The Feminine Image and Social and Economic Realities, 1880-1940 (page 102)
- Six From Vichy through the Fourth Republic (page 133)
- Seven The Fifth Republic: Educational Reforms and Reevalutations of Girls' Schooling (page 151)
- Notes (page 169)
- Bibliography (page 205)
- Index (page 219)