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Women's education in the United States, 1780-1840 / Margaret A. Nash.
- Title
- Women's education in the United States, 1780-1840 / Margaret A. Nash.
- Author
- Nash, Margaret A., 1959-
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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- Description
- viii, 203 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- The author examines education from the early national period through the formation of the institutions that are widely recognised as the forerunners of the women's college movement. She argues that in this period, education was not as strongly gendered as other historians have posited.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-196) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. "Is not woman a human being?" : discourses on education in the early national period -- 3. "Cultivating the powers of human beings" : curriculum and pedagogy in schools and academies in the new republic -- 4. Female education and the emergence of the "middling classes" -- 5. "Perfecting our whole nature" : intellectual and physical education for women in the antebellum era -- 6. Possibilities and limitations : education and white middle-class womanhood -- App. Institutions considered in this study, by state and year of data.
- ISBN
- 140396937X
- 1403969388
- LCCN
- ^^2005043028
- OCLC
- 57530254
- SCSB-12531922
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library