Women's Education In The United States, (Paperback)
Margaret Nash's groundbreaking Women's Education in the United States, examines education from the early national period through the formation of the institutions that are widely recognized as the forerunners of the women's college movement. Nash argues that in this period education was not as strongly gendered as other historians have posited. The rising rhetoric of human rights,Enlightenment thought,and evangelical Christianity,in an age of dynamic economic change,helped build a broad i