Gender and education in Early Modern Period

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  • Gender and education in Early Modern Period (according to Bernard Capp)
    • Parents, knowing gender would be a major factor in their child's future, raised children accordingly
      • Usually for boys
        • Informal 'dame' or charity schools taught reading, writing and basic religious principles
        • Formal schooling kept primarily for boys
      • Girls
        • Steered towards practical skills
          • Sewing
          • Embroidery
    • According to Wiesner, in Italy:
      • survey of schools in Venice in 1587-88 found:
        • Male pupils
          • 4,600
        • Female pupils
          • 30
    • In Electoral Saxony
      • 50% of parishes had licensed schools for boys by 1580
      • 10% of parishes had licensed schools for girls
        • attended only for short periods and received narrow, mainly practical education
    • Schools in England
      • Grammar schools were for boys
      • Teacher appointed to school at Crosby, nr. Liverpool, in 1651
        • Resigned due to being horrified by the 'barbarity' of some parents wanting their daughters to also attend
      • Girls' boarding schools
        • Began to spread from mid-17th Century
        • Especially nr. London
        • Syllabus geared more to music and dancing than to academic study
    • Literacy rates
      • In England
        • Only 10% of women could write their names in early C17th
        • Even Shakespeare's daughter learned only to read, not to write
      • According to Hufton
        • In Amsterdam
          • Known for relatively good educational provision
          • Quarter of men and half women marrying in 1730 could not sign their names
    • Among landed elite, girls were educated at home by private tutors
      • Some became highly accomplished, especially in Renaissance Period
      • No one envisaged young women going to university
    • Education was about absorbing values as well as skills
      • Concepts of honour and reputation remained firmly gender-based
      • For women
        • Chastity and fidelity were everywhere the prerequisites for a good name
        • While qualities such as thrift and good neighbourliness might win praise
          • Could not restore reputation ruined by sexual promiscuity
      • For men
        • Good name rested on wider range of attributes
          • Courage
          • ability to maintain  and govern household
          • 'honesty' in honouring promises and debts
        • According to Shepherd and Davis
          • Young single men sometimes developed very different codes of honour
            • Based on prowess in fighting, sport, drinking and womanising

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