| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Kathleen Weiler. Country Schoolwomen: Teaching in Rural California, 1850–1950. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1998. Pp. ix, 339. $49.50.

As a beginning secondary school teacher in Toronto in 1955, I worked with a woman who had taught in rural Ontario in the 1930s. Perhaps to make me feel better about the present, Miss G. told me stories about those earlier days. The one that I remember after all these years is about having to lock herself in the boarding house bathroom with the window wide open when she wanted to smoke. Of course, the story was not just about community control of this teacher's life but also about her resistance and survival. 1

Reading Kathleen Weiler's book brought this tale back to me. There are wonderful stories here, vividly told and drawn from a wide variety of sources. At the same time, Weiler's construction of the history of California school teachers is also theoretically sophisticated and well grounded, both in the burgeoning literature on teachers' history and the wider contexts that framed California teachers' lives. . . .

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