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Learning to stand & speak : women, education, and public life in America's republic /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kelley, Mary, 1943-
Corporate Authors: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, University of North Carolina Press
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
Series:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.