Mere equals : the paradox of educated women in the early American republic /

From the publisher. In Mere Equals, Lucia McMahon narrates a story about how a generation of young women who enjoyed access to new educational opportunities made sense of their individual and social identities in an American nation marked by stark political inequality between the sexes. McMahon'...

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Hlavní autor: McMahon, Lucia (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2012.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.cttq43s7
Obsah:
  • Introduction : between Cupid and Minerva
  • More like a pleasure than a study : women's educational experiences
  • Various subjects that passed between two young ladies of America : reconstructing female friendship
  • The social family circle : family matters
  • The union of reason and love : courtship ideals and practices
  • The sweet tranquility of domestic endearment : companionate marriage
  • So material a change : revisiting republican motherhood
  • Conclusion : education, equality, or difference.