Learning to stand & speak: women, education, and public life in America's republic

Introduction

You will arrive at distinguished usefulness : the grounds for women's entry into public life

The need of their genius : the rights and obligations of schooling

Female academies are everywhere establishing : curriculum and pedagogy

Meeting in this social way to search for truth : literary societies, reading circles, and mutual improvement associations

The privilege of reading : women, books, and self-imagining

Whether to make her surname More or Adams : women writing women's history

The mind is, in a sense, its own home : gendered republicanism as lived experience

Epilogue.