Learning to Stand and Speak Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic

Name: Learning to Stand and Speak Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic
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ISBN: 9780807859216

ISBN-10: 0807859214

ISBN-13: 9780807859216

Edition: 2008

Authors: Mary Kelley

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Education was decisive in recasting women's subjectivity and the felt 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…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Mary Kelley is Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She is author or editor of several books, including Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in Ameri



Acknowledgments


List of Illustrations


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


Index