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Giner, Elisenda; Ruiz, Laura; Serrano, Mª Ángeles; Valls, Rosa – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background/Context: Women's sexuality, and the ways they experience it, has been a major topic in feminist theories and movements throughout history. For the more than 20,000 working-class women who participated in the Free Women movement in Spain (the libertarian women's movement, which started in 1936), women's sexuality was also a key topic in…
Descriptors: Females, Sexuality, Sex Education, Educational History
Nader, Helen – 1989
Social historians are taught that historical changes are caused by large social and economic forces, rather than great individuals; and so they study groups of people, broad economic movements, and underlying institutional structures that change slowly over time. But the general public demands information about the individual person told through…
Descriptors: Biographies, Chronicles, Economic Change, North American History
Miller, Neil; And Others – 1976
The following reports on women in Portuguese or Portuguese American society are included: (1) "The Story of Maria a.k.a. Mary" by Steven Samuel Ussach, (2) "Portuguese-American Women: Portraits in Fact and in Fiction" by Mary T. Vermette, (3) "A Different Vision of a New England Childhood: The Cape Verdean Experience on Cape Cod" by Maria Luisa…
Descriptors: Biographies, Case Studies, Characterization, Cultural Traits
Crosby, Alfred W.; Nader, Helen – 1989
The far-reaching and transforming interactions of the Old World and the New are known today as "the Columbian Exchange." Part 1 of this booklet is an introduction by John J. Patrick dealing with teaching about the voyages of Christopher Columbus. Part 2, "Columbus and Ecological Imperialism," by Alfred W. Crosby, provides an…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), American Indians, Animals, Biographies
Smith, Louis M.; And Others – 1983
This final volume of a six-volume study of an elementary school called "Kensington" in a school district code-named "Milford," examines its own assumptions and procedures. After the brief, introductory chapter, which presents the methodological appendixes of the preceding volumes as a serial, chapter 2 discusses exploratory and…
Descriptors: Biographies, Case Records, Case Studies, Cognitive Processes
Schurer, K. – 2000
Data from the 1811 and 1851 census in England and Wales as well as other data from those countries in 1891 and 1921 were analyzed to investigate individuals' timing and extent of departure from the parental home. The authors found the following: (1) there was a gradual increase in the ages at which children left the parental home; (2) the pace of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Biographies, Cohort Analysis, Demography