Woman's "True" Profession: Voices from the History of Teaching (Women's lives/women's work) by Nancy Hoffman - 1981-06

Old Westbury NY, NY, St. Louis and San Francisco: Feminist Press/McGraw-Hill Book Company. VG/G. (1981). ........ Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., xxiii, 325 pp., Dj tear, shelfworn .

Old Westbury / New York:: Feminist Press / McGraw Hill, 1981. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (17.95). No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh and clean. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with historical photographs. List of chapter notes/sources. Bibliography. Index. A very nice copy of the scarce HARDCOVER first edition. Bound in the original gilt-lettered two-tone cloth (cream cloth spine, green cloth sides). From the Dust Jacket: "In autobiographical writings -- essays, fiction, letters, and reminiscences -- women tell of their teaching experiences in the years 1830 - 1920. The book explores the development of teaching from a job for men to a profession for women; the teaching movement of the 1860s that sent some seven thousand teachers South to teach newly freed slaves; and the experience of teaching immigrant children in… Read More