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

Published Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2008]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 294 pages) : illustrations, portraits Series Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia 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 Summary Annotation 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 most women did not 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. 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 Notes Reprint. Originally published: 2006 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject 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 SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Women Women -- Education Women in public life United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9781469601182 1469601184

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