Toward an Intellectual History of Women: Essays

Table of contents

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• Gender & American Culture ii
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Illustrations ix
• Acknowledgments xi
• Introduction 1
• I Finding Women in the Revolutionary Era 21
• Daughters of Columbia Educating Women for the Republic, 1787-1805 23
• The Republican Mother Women and the Enlightenment -- an American Perspective 41
• "History Can Do It No Justice" Women and the Reinterpretation of the American Revolution 63
• "I Have Don . . . Much to Carrey on the Warr" - Women and the Shaping of Republican Ideology After the American Revolution 100
• The Republican Ideology of the Revolutionary Generation 132
• Ii Toward an Intellectual History of Women 157
• Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman's Place the Rhetoric of Women's History 159
• Can a Woman Be an Individual? - The Discourse of Self-Reliance 200
• "Why Should Girls Be Learn'D and Wise?" - The Unfinished Work of Alice Mary Baldwin 224

• Gender & American Culture ii
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Illustrations ix
• Acknowledgments xi
• Introduction 1
• I Finding Women in the Revolutionary Era 21
• Daughters of Columbia Educating Women for the Republic, 1787-1805 23
• The Republican Mother Women and the Enlightenment -- an American Perspective 41
• "History Can Do It No Justice" Women and the Reinterpretation of the American Revolution 63
• "I Have Don . . . Much to Carrey on the Warr" - Women and the Shaping of Republican Ideology After the American Revolution 100
• The Republican Ideology of the Revolutionary Generation 132
• Ii Toward an Intellectual History of Women 157
• Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman's Place the Rhetoric of Women's History 159
• Can a Woman Be an Individual? - The Discourse of Self-Reliance 200
• "Why Should Girls Be Learn'D and Wise?" - The Unfinished Work of Alice Mary Baldwin 224
• Iii Finding Gender in American Culture 259
• The Paradox of Women's Citizenship in the Early Republic the Case of Martin Vs. Massachusetts, 1805 261
• Women and Men Boredom, Violence and Political Power 303
• Index 319
• Permissions 335
• Gender and American Culture 337