Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment
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Contents:
Introduction: The Age of the Constitution -- Growing Up Imperial -- Female Genius -- The College and the Forum -- The Exertions of a Female -- The Progress of the Female Mind -- Improving the Female Mind -- Conclusion: Constitutional Exclusion and Example
Summary:
"A biography of Eliza Harriot Barons O'Connor, an educator whose 1787 Philadelphia public lecture attended by George Washington might have inspired the gender-neutral language of the Constitution. Explores women's public roles and political power following the American Revolution through the early nineteenth century, tracing the story of white and Black women's struggles for education and suffrage at a transformative moment"-- Provided by publisher
