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 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.