ISBN:
9780807830642
,
080783064X
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 294 S.
,
Ill.
DDC:
305.4097309034
Keywords:
Women History
;
18th century
;
United States
;
Women History
;
19th century
;
United States
;
Women in public life History
;
18th century
;
United States
;
Women in public life History
;
19th century
;
United States
;
Women Education
;
History
;
18th century
;
United States
;
Women Education
;
History
;
19th century
;
United States
;
Women History 18th century
;
Women History 19th century
;
Women in public life History 18th century
;
Women in public life History 19th century
;
Women Education 18th century
;
History
;
Women Education 19th century
;
History
;
USA
;
Frau
;
Öffentlichkeit
;
Ausbildung
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip068/2006005198.html
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0f4a5-aa
