Titone, Gender Equality in the Philosophy of Education: Catherine Macaulay's Forgotten Contribution

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Connie Titone. Gender Equality in the Philosophy of Education: Catherine Macaulay's Forgotten Contribution. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. ISBN: 0-8204-5174-6. 173 pages.

"The very word respect brings Mrs. Macaulay to my remembrance. The woman of the greatest abilities, undoubtedly, that this country has ever produced.--And yet, this woman has been suffered to die without sufficient respect being paid to her memory. Prosperity, however, will be more just ..."--Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792

Over 200 years after Mary Wollstonecraft expressed her appreciation for Catherine Macaulay, Connie Titone's Gender Equality in the Philosophy of Education: Catherine Macaulay's Forgotten Contribution (2004) has helped to ensure that Macaulay's contribution to educational philosophy will be recognized. (1) Titone's reclamation of Macaulay's treatise on educational thought--Letters on Education with Observations on Religious and Metaphysical Subjects (1790)--is an act with …