Introduction. Drawing back the veil and rescuing from the shadows

There are few areas in the past where there have been no women,and it is not surprising, therefore, that we find them wherever we look. More importantly, we also find them no matter how we look, whatever our analytical perspective. Macro, micro or intermediate, town or countryside, right or left, the women of Southern Europe have been there. It was enough to want to see them. Gender is a general lens for looking at the past, but it is far from a single way of doing it. There are many perspectives from which to approach the history of women in education. Probably the most characteristic feature of the collection of works in this volume is the biographical approach