No Small Lives

No Small Lives: Handbook of North American Early Women Adult Educators 1925-1950 contains the storiesof 26 North American women who were active in the field of adult education sometime between the years of1925 and 1950. Generally women's contributions have been omitted from the field's histories. No SmallLives is designed to address this gap and restore women to their rightful place in the history of adulteducation in North America.The primary audience for this book is adult education professors and their graduate students. This book canbe used in courses including history and sociology of adult education the adult learner courses specific toexploring women's contributions and activities. The secondary audience is the broader fields of women'sstudies feminist history sociology and psychology or those fields that include an examination of women inthe early twentieth century. It could also be useful to those focusing on more specific topics such as genderand race studies prejudice marginalization power how women were sometimes portrayed as invisible or as central figures and women in leadershipand policy making.