El pensil de las niñas

Synopsis of El pensil de las niñas

«El pensil de las niñas» is the historical essay on female education by Agustín Escolano Benito, published by Edaf in hardcover (255 pages, in Spanish).

The work analyzes how the education of girls and women was constructed over time, with special attention to 19th-century Spain and the invention of a pedagogical tradition. Drawing on school texts and documents of the period, it examines the curricula, manuals and methodologies used to train women, and how these practices consolidated an educational model.

Published in 2004 in Edaf's Biblioteca del Recuerdo collection; facsimile edition, illustrated.

A work of interest for readers of the history of education, pedagogy and women's studies.