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.
Learning to stand & speak : women, education, and public life in America's republic by Mary Kelley. ISBN 9780807830642. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.