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Women's Education in the United States, 1780-1840
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Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Winner of 2005 American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Critic's Choice Award, this is a groundbreaking from Margaret Nash examining the development of women's education.
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Higher EducationTable of contents
- Cover
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- Appendix: Institutions Considered in This Study, by State and Year of Data
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index