 | Mere Equals: The Paradox of Educated Women in the Early American Republic Subjects: Women -- Education -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Women -- Education -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 18th century; Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century; McMahon narrates a story about how a generation of young women who enjoyed access to new educational opportunities made sense of their individual and social identities in an American nation marked by stark political inequality between the sexes. Lucia McMahon is Associate Professor of History at William Paterson University. She is coeditor of To Read My Heart: The Journal of Rachel Van Dyke, 1810-1811. |
