Women's education in the United States, 1780-1840

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

App. Institutions considered in this study, by state and year of data.