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

• Autore: Kelley Mary <1943->
• Pubblicazione: 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
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.40973/09034
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Learning to stand and speak
• ISBN: 0-8078-3918-3; 1-4696-0118-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460610803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia