Female genius : Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the dawn of the Constitution /

"A biography of Eliza Harriot Barons O'Connor, an educator whose 1787 Philadelphia public lecture attended by George Washington might have inspired the gender-neutral language of the Constitution. Explores women's public roles and political power following the American Revolution thro...

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Hlavní autor: Bilder, Mary Sarah (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.26526656
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Shrnutí:"A biography of Eliza Harriot Barons O'Connor, an educator whose 1787 Philadelphia public lecture attended by George Washington might have inspired the gender-neutral language of the Constitution. Explores women's public roles and political power following the American Revolution through the early nineteenth century, tracing the story of white and Black women's struggles for education and suffrage at a transformative moment"--
Fyzický popis:1 online resource (xiv, 344 pages): illustrations, maps
Bibliografie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-304) and index.
ISBN:0813947200
9780813947204
9780813947198