Learning to stand & speak : women, education, and public life in America's republic
Mary Kelley (Author), Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture (Issuing body)
Education was decisive in recasting women's subjectivity and the lived reality of their collective experience in post-Revolutionary America. Asking how and why women shaped their lives anew through education, this work measures the significant transformation in individual and social identities fostered by female academies and seminaries.
eBook, English, 2006
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill [North Carolina], 2006
History
1 online resource (x, 294 pages) : illustrations
9781469601182, 9780807839188, 1469601184, 0807839183
951807933
Print version:
Introduction
You will arrive at distinguished usefulness : the grounds for women's entry into public life
The need of their genius : the rights and obligations of schooling
Female academies are everywhere establishing : curriculum and pedagogy
Meeting in this social way to search for truth : literary societies, reading circles, and mutual improvement associations
The privilege of reading : women, books, and self-imagining
Whether to make her surname More or Adams : women writing women's history
The mind is, in a sense, its own home : gendered republicanism as lived experience
Epilogue
English