women, education, and public life in America's republic
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kelley, Mary
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- VS 1D 2006
- Thesaurus
- onderwijs, curriculum, burgerschap, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw
- Description
- Kelley measures the transformation in individual and social identities fostered by female academies. Constituted in a curriculum that matched the course of study at male colleges, women's liberal learning played a key role in one of the most profound changes in gender relations in the nation's history: the movement of women into public life. .By the 1850s, the large majority of women engaged in public life as educators, writers, editors, and reformers had been schooled at female academies and seminaries. Although most women did not enter these professions, many participated in networks of readers, literary societies, or voluntary associations that became the basis for benevolent societies, reform movements, and activism in the antebellum period. Kelley's analysis demonstrates that female academies and seminaries taught women crucial writing, oration, and reasoning skills that prepared them to claim the rights and obligations of citizenship.