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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2022.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.26526656 |
| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 344 pages): illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-304) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0813947200 9780813947204 9780813947198 |