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Elite Women's Schools across Three Australian States in the 1930s: A Prosopographical Study
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May, Josephine – History of Education Review, 2023
Purpose: This paper presents a descriptive analysis of elite women's biographical sketches in Who's Who-type collections, now out of copyright, published in Australia in the 1930s--Victoria (1934), New South Wales (1936) and Queensland (1939). It concentrates on information given about their schooling. Design/methodology/approach: The biographical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Status, Single Sex Schools, Mothers
Revisiting the Life of Lucy Garvin, First Principal of Sydney Girls High School: Expanded Biography and Use of Digital Sources
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May, Josephine – History of Education Review, 2021
Purpose: The article sets out primarily to fill in some of the gaps in the biography of Lucy Arabella Stocks Garvin (1851-1938), first principal of Sydney Girls High School. As a reflexive exercise stimulated by this biographical research, the second aim is to explore the transformative work of digital sources on the researcher's research…
Descriptors: Principals, Females, Single Sex Schools, Women Administrators
Secrets and Lies: Sex Education and Gendered Memories of Childhood's End in an Australian Provincial City, 1930s-1950s
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May, Josephine – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2006
There are few historical studies about the sex education of Australian youth. Drawing on a range of sources, including the oral histories of 40 women and men who attended two single-sex, selective high schools in a provincial Australian city (Newcastle, New South Wales) in the 1930s-1950s, this paper explores the adolescent experience of sex…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Females, War, Ideology