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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822952103321

Autore

Kelley Mary <1943->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by the University of North Carolina Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

979-88-908711-6-9

0-8078-3918-3

1-4696-0118-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Collana

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Disciplina

305.40973/09034

Soggetti

Women - United States - History - 18th century

Women - United States - History - 19th century

Women in public life - United States - History - 18th century

Women in public life - United States - History - 19th century

Women - Education - United States - History - 18th century

Women - Education - United States - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.