This collection traces women educators' professional lives and the extent to which they challenged the gendered terrain they occupied. The emphasis is placed on women's historical public voices and their own interpretation of their 'selves' and 'lives' in their struggle to exercise authority in education.

This collection traces women educators' professional lives and the extent to which they challenged the gendered terrain they occupied. The emphasis is placed on women's historical public voices and their own interpretation of their 'selves' and 'lives' in their struggle to exercise authority in education.

1. Introduction: Educational Lives and Networks; Tanya Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Smyth 2. Networks of Influence: Home Scientists at the University of New Zealand 1911–1941; Tanya Fitzgerald 3. Worlds within Worlds: Canadian Women Religious, International Connections, Ecclesiastical Webs and the Secular State; Elizabeth Smyth 4. Courting Equality: Catholic Women and Agency in the Reconfiguration of University Education in Ireland; Judith Harford 5. Mana Wahine: Boundaries and Connections in the Career of a M?ori Educational Leader Bessie (Wene) Te Wenerau Grace (Sister Eudora CSC) ; Kay Morris Matthews 6. Performing Reforming and the Category of Age: Empire, Internationalism and Transnationalism in the Career of Reta Oldham, Headmistress; Joyce Goodman and Zoe Milsom 7. Mary Gutteridge (1887–1962): Transnational Careering in the Field of Early Childhood Education; Kay Whitehead 8. Henrietta Rodman and the Fight to Further Women's Economic Autonomy; Patricia A. Carter 9. Lives, Networks and Topographies of Time and Place: New Turns in the History of Women and Education; Deirdre Raftery