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

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

Mary Kelley

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c2006

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Learning to stand and speak

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Includes bibliographical references and index

収録内容

  • 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

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: cloth ISBN 9780807830642

内容説明

Education was decisive in recasting women's subjectivity and the lived reality of their collective experience in post-Revolutionary and antebellum America. Asking how and why women shaped their lives anew through education, Mary Kelley measures the significant transformation in individual and social identities fostered by female academies and seminaries. Constituted in a curriculum that matched the course of study at male colleges, women's liberal learning, Kelley argues, played a key role in one of the most profound changes in gender relations in the nation's history: the movement of women into public life. By the 1850s, the large majority of women deeply engaged in public life as educators, writers, editors, and reformers had been schooled at female academies and seminaries. Although relatively few women could enter these professions, many participated in networks of readers, literary societies, or voluntary associations that became the basis for benevolent societies, reform movements, and activism in the antebellum period. Kelley's analysis demonstrates that female academies and seminaries taught women crucial writing, oration, and reasoning skills that prepared them to claim the rights and obligations of citizenship.
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: pbk ISBN 9780807859216

内容説明

This title examines training women in the arts of citizenship. Education played a decisive role in recasting women's collective experience in post-Revolutionary and antebellum America. Asking how and why women shaped their lives anew through education, Mary Kelley measures the significant transformation in individual and social identities fostered by female academies and seminaries. With a curriculum that matched the course of study at male colleges, women's liberal learning, Kelley argues, cultivated one of the most profound changes in gender relations in the nation's history: the movement of women into public life. Kelley's analysis demonstrates that female academies and seminaries taught women crucial writing, oration, and reasoning skills that prepared them to claim the rights and obligations of citizenship.

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