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Beyond Biological Ties: Sibilla Aleramo, Maria Montessori, and the Construction of Social Motherhood
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: Italian Culture, vol. 32, no. 1
Date: 2014
Pages: 32-49
Feminism, Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, Sibilla Aleramo - Biographic sources
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Abstract/Notes: At the turn of the twentieth century, many Italian intellectuals opposed women’s participation in the public sphere, maintaining that women could not engage in politics due to their exclusive love for their biological children. Contemporary feminists countered this notion by promoting the idea of social motherhood. Sibilla Aleramo and Maria Montessori, better known for their work in feminist literature and early childhood education, respectively, made important contributions to this debate by implementing, theorizing, and popularizing the notion of social motherhood. This essay traces the strategies the two intellectuals used to demonstrate how women could act as political subjects via a socialization of the maternal functions. In her novel Una donna, Aleramo offered a fictional portrait of the social mother. Influenced by it and by the feminist debate on motherhood, Montessori conceptualized the notion of social motherhood as both a socialization of maternal duties and the expansion of women’s maternal virtues into the social world. Montessori also applied this notion to her first pedagogical experiments in San Lorenzo (Rome) and with the orphans of the 1908 Messina-Reggio earthquake. An analysis of these intellectuals’ formerly overlooked contributions provides a new understanding of the role of social motherhood in the contemporary feminist debate in Italy.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1179/0161462213Z.00000000022
ISSN: 0161-4622
Archival Material Or Collection
Indian Twilight
Available from: Archives West
Date: [unknown]
Asia, Ceylon, Edwin Mortimer Standing - Biographic sources, Edwin Mortimer Standing - Writings, India, Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, South Asia, Sri Lanka
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Abstract/Notes: This is an unpublished 4-volume chronicle of Standing’s years as a Montessori tutor for the Saharabai family in India (circa 1920-1925). Included are reprints of Standing’s letters documenting his experiences, photographs of the people and architecture of India before its independence from England; and brief references to conversations with Mahatma Gandhi who was a close friend and neighbor of the Saharabai family.
Language: English
Archive: Seattle University, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, Special Collections (Seattle, Washington)
Book Section
Itard and Séguin: Forerunners of Montessori
Book Title: Montessori Schools in America: Historical, Philosophical, and Empirical Research Perspectives
Jean Marc Gaspard Itard - Biographic sources, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Montessori method of education - History, Édouard Séguin - Biographic sources
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Abstract/Notes: Reprint of an article that was originally published in American Montessori Society Bulletin, v. 18, no. 4 (1980).
Language: English
Published: Lexington, Massachusetts: Ginn Custom Pub., 1981
Edition: 1st ed.
ISBN: 0-536-03647-0
Article
Tagore and Montessori: The Poet's Vision and the Scientist's Testimony
Publication: Montessori Notes, vol. 3, no. 18
Date: Jul 1936
Pages: 21
Asia, India, Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, Montessori Society (United Kingdom) - Periodicals, Rabindranath Tagore - Biographic sources, South Asia, ⛔ No DOI found
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Language: English
Article
A Message from AMI's President [Tribute to Mario M. Montessori; obituary of Henk Steenbergh]
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1994, no. 1
Date: 1994
Pages: 2
Henk Steenbergh - Biographic sources, Mario M. Montessori - Biographic sources, Obituaries
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Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
Article
A Montessori Experiment in Maine
Available from: HathiTrust
Publication: Journal of Education (Boston), vol. 77, no. 12
Date: Mar 20, 1913
Pages: 328-329
Americas, Frances Haskell - Biographic sources, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Myron T. Scudder - Biographic sources, North America, Public Montessori, United States of America, ⛔ No DOI found
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Language: English
ISSN: 0022-0574, 2515-5741
Book Section
Itard and Séguin: Forerunners of Montessori
Book Title: Montessori Schools in America: Historical, Philosophical, and Empirical Research Perspectives
Pages: 1-12
Jean Marc Gaspard Itard - Biographic sources, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Montessori method of education - History, Édouard Séguin - Biographic sources
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Abstract/Notes: Reprint of an article that was originally published in American Montessori Society Bulletin, v. 18, no. 4 (1980).
Language: English
Published: Lexington, Massachusetts: Ginn Custom Pub., 1983
Edition: 2nd ed.
ISBN: 0-536-04367-1
Book Section
Excursions; X - Madame Montessori
Available from: Internet Archive
, C. Rajagopalachar (Editor) , J. C. Kumarappa (Editor)Book Title: The Nation's Voice: Being a Collection of Gandhiji's Speeches in England and Sjt. Mahadev Desai's Account of the Sojourn
Pages: 235-239
Asia, England, Europe, Great Britain, India, Mahatma Gandhi - Biographic sources, Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, Northern Europe, South Asia, United Kingdom
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Language: English
Published: Ahmedabad, India: Navajivan Publishing House, 1947
Book
Montessori in Practice: Observations from a First-Generation Montessorian
Americas, Asia, India, Lakshmi A. Kripalani - Biographic sources, Lakshmi A. Kripalani - Writings, Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, North America, South Asia, United States of America
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Abstract/Notes: This is a compilation of Kripalani's articles that appeared in NAMTA Journal from Winter 1989 through Fall 1998. 'More Montessori in Practice' is a sequel to this that includes her writings in NAMTA Journal from Summer 1999 through Spring 2009.
Language: English
Published: Santa Rosa, California: Montessori Services, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-9824533-0-8
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More Montessori in Practice: Further Observations from a First-Generation Montessorian
Americas, Asia, India, Lakshmi A. Kripalani - Biographic sources, Lakshmi A. Kripalani - Writings, Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, North America, South Asia, United States of America
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Abstract/Notes: This is a compilation of Kripalani's articles that appeared in NAMTA Journal from Summer 1999 through Spring 2009. 'Montessori in Practice' is a prequel to this that includes her writings in NAMTA Journal from Winter 1989 through Fall 1998.
Language: English
Published: Santa Rosa, California: Montessori Services, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9824533-2-2