Girls Becoming Teachers: An Historical Analysis of Western Australian Women Teachers, 1911–1940
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Chapter 4: Schooled to Teach: Gender Regimes

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Introduction

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Schooling: The Replication and Reworking of Separate Spheres

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Schools and Gender Regimes

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Regulating Gender Relations

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Gendering School Administration

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A Gendered Curriculum

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Summary and Conclusions

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Chapter 5: Schools: Pleasures and Possibilities

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Introduction

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The Pleasures of School Life

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Pleasures and Teacherly Girls: Theoretical Considerations

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A Postscript on Resistance and Power

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Chapter 6: Pupil Teachers and Monitors: Policies and Practice

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Introduction

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Monitors and Pupil Teachers: England and Wales

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Pupil Teachers and Monitors in Western Australia

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Pupil Teachers and Monitors: Gendered Constructions of Professionalism

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Chapter 7: Monitors, Memories, and Metaphors

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Introduction

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The Journey Begins

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‘It Involved Different Things for Different People’: City and Country Schools

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Journeys of Adventure

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Modest Journeys Into Monitoring

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Reflections on the Journeys

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