| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 173 pages) |
| Contents |
Antecedents of the female seminary and the age of reform : "I study because I must" -- Political and religious roots : The "fourth branch of government" and early exhorters -- Religious and cultural sources for the founding of female seminaries : from "butterflies to eagles" -- Selected list of female academics and seminaries -- An evolving curriculum -- The self-sustaining impulse and the talented tenth : African American seminaries -- The politics of assimilation : the Cherokee female seminary -- Educating the Chickasaws, Choctaws, and other tribes -- Women stepping out of the home sphere and into the teaching profession -- From seminaries to normal schools : farmville female seminary -- Conclusion : female seminary alumni and social reform movements |
| Summary |
In the United States, female seminaries and their antecedents, the female academies, were crucial first institutions that played a vital role in liberating women from the ""home sphere, "" a locus that was the primary domain of Euro-American women. The female seminaries founded by Native Americans and African Americans had different founding rationales but also played a key role in empowering women. On the whole, the initial intent of these schools was to prepare women for their proper role in American society as wives and mothers. An unintended effect, however, was to prepare women for the first socially accepted profession for women: teaching. Thus equipped, women played a crucial role in the development of American education at all levels while achieving varying degrees of social justice for themselves and other groups through engagement in the reform movements of their times--including women's suffrage, abolition, temperance, and mental health reform. By recapturing the role religion played in shaping education for women, Welch and Ruelas offer a refreshing take on history that draws on several primary texts and details more than one hundred female seminaries and academies opened in the United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (167-173) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- Education -- United States -- History
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Girls' schools -- United States
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Women -- United States -- Social conditions
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Feminism -- United States
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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Feminism
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Girls' schools
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Women -- Education
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Women -- Social conditions
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ruelas, Abraham Antonio, author.
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| ISBN |
9781630877507 |
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1630877506 |
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