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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Autor principal: Bilder, Mary Sarah (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.26526656
Taula de continguts:
  • Introduction: The Age of the Constitution
  • Growing Up Imperial
  • Female Genius
  • The College and the Forum
  • The Exertions of a Female
  • The Progress of the Female Mind
  • Improving the Female Mind
  • Conclusion: Constitutional Exclusion and Example.