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

by Mary Kelley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080783064X
• ISBN13: 9780807830642
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"