Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.