The role of female seminaries on the road to social justice for women /

In the United States, female seminaries and their antecedents, the female academies, were crucial first institutions that played a vital role in liberating women from the ""home sphere, "" a locus that was the primary domain of Euro-American women. The female seminaries founded b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Welch, Kristen Dayle (Autor), Ruelas, Abraham Antonio (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Eugene, Oregon : WIPF & Stock, [2015]
Temas:
Women > Education > United States > History.
Girls' schools > United States.
Women > United States > Social conditions.
Feminism > United States.
Femmes > Éducation > États-Unis > Histoire.
Écoles de filles > États-Unis.
Femmes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Féminisme > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
Feminism
Girls' schools
Women > Education
Women > Social conditions
United States
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Antecedents of the female seminary and the age of reform : "I study because I must"
  • Political and religious roots : The "fourth branch of government" and early exhorters
  • Religious and cultural sources for the founding of female seminaries : from "butterflies to eagles"
  • Selected list of female academics and seminaries
  • An evolving curriculum
  • The self-sustaining impulse and the talented tenth : African American seminaries
  • The politics of assimilation : the Cherokee female seminary
  • Educating the Chickasaws, Choctaws, and other tribes
  • Women stepping out of the home sphere and into the teaching profession
  • From seminaries to normal schools : farmville female seminary
  • Conclusion : female seminary alumni and social reform movements.

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