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Female Genius - Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution (Hardcover)
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Female Genius - Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution (Hardcover)
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In this provocative new biography, Mary Sarah Bilder looks to the
1780s-the Age of the Constitution-to investigate the rise of a
radical new idea in the English-speaking world: female genius.
Bilder finds the perfect exemplar of this phenomenon in
English-born Eliza Harriot Barons O'Connor. This pathbreaking
female educator delivered a University of Pennsylvania lecture
attended by George Washington as he and other Constitutional
Convention delegates gathered in Philadelphia. As the first such
public female lecturer, her courageous performance likely inspired
the gender-neutral language of the Constitution. Female Genius
reconstructs Eliza Harriot's transatlantic life, from Lisbon to
Charleston, paying particular attention to her lectures and to the
academies she founded, inspiring countless young American women to
consider a college education and a role in the political forum.
Promoting the ideas made famous by Mary Wollstonecraft, Eliza
Harriot brought the concept of female genius to the United States.
Its advocates argued that women had equal capacity and deserved an
equal education and political representation. Its detractors, who
feared it undermined male political power, felt deeply threatened.
By 1792 Eliza Harriot experienced struggles that reflected the
larger backlash faced by women and people of color as new written
constitutions provided the political and legal tools for exclusion
based on sex, gender, and race. In recovering this pioneering life,
the richly illustrated Female Genius makes clear that America's
framing moment did not belong solely to white men and offers an
inspirational transatlantic history of women who believed in
education as a political right.
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