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Author:

Kelley, Mary, 1943-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and CultureWilliamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

x, 294 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

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--History--United States--History--18th century.
Women--History--United States--History--19th century.

Other Authors:

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780807830642
080783064X (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)64208285

LCCN:

2006005198

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)