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

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

Author/creator	Kelley, Mary, 1943-
Other author/creator	Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
Description	x, 294 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	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.

Spine title	Learning to stand and speak
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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2006005198
ISBN	080783064X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780807830642

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	HQ1418 .K46 2006	✔ Available	Place Hold