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Women's education in the United States, 1780-1840 / Margaret A. Nash.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nash, Margaret A., 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Education--United States--History--19th century.
- Women.
- Women--Education--United States--History--18th century.
- Women--Education.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- polychrome
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781137050359
- 1137050357
- Publisher Number:
- 99973308366
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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