Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic
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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.
Ch. 1You will arrive at distinguished usefulness : the grounds for women's entry into public life16Ch. 2The need of their genius : the rights and obligations of schooling34Ch. 3Female academies are everywhere establishing : curriculum and pedagogy66Ch. 4Meeting in this social way to search for truth : literary societies, reading circles, and mutual improvement associations112Ch. 5The privilege of reading : women, books, and self-imagining154Ch. 6Whether to make her surname more or adams : women writing women's history191Ch. 7The mind is, in a sense, its own home : gendered republicanism as lived experience245
