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Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republicreviewed by Christine Woyshner - December 05, 2008 Title: Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic Author(s): Mary Kelley Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC ISBN: 0807859214, Pages: 312, Year: 2008 Search for book at Amazon.com Mary Kelley breaks important new ground in her book, Learning to Stand and Speak, a history of womens education in post-Revolutionary and antebellum America. She links together ideas from three areas: the history of womens education, womens clubs and associations, and public life. Kelley argues that increasing efforts at the formal education of women during this time helped them challenge assumed gender expectations because women began to apply their lessons to the public sphere, or civil society. While she does attempt to include a diverse array of women, any historian cannot help but recognize the limitations of that era; Kelleys focus is on white women of the middling and upper classes who attended seminaries, academies, and other institutions in the nations early years. However, this is not to be taken as a drawback to her study. Kelley weaves a rich narrative that draws on school curriculum documents, letters, published works,... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Christine Woyshner
Temple University E-mail Author CHRISTINE WOYSHNER is Associate Professor of Education at Temple University. She is author or coeditor of four books, including Social Education in the Twentieth Century: Curriculum and Context for Citizenship; The Educational Work of Women’s Organizations, 1890-1960; and The National PTA, Race, and Civic Engagement, 1897-1970.
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