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Benjamin Franklin and women /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Tise, Larry E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2000]
Subjects:
Franklin, Benjamin, > 1706-1790 > Relations with women.
Franklin, Benjamin, > 1706-1790 > Influence.
Women > United States > Social conditions > 18th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Principal women in the life of Benjamin Franklin: a biographical glossary
  • Chronology of Benjamin Franklin's encounters with women
  • Introduction: Benjamin Franklin and the world of women
  • Family partnerships: the working wife, honoring Deborah Franklin / Sheila Skemp
  • Liberty and the rights of women: Sarah Franklin's declaration of independence / Larry E. Tise
  • Three women, three styles: Catharine Ray, Polly Hewson, and Georgiana Shipley / Claude-Anne Lopez
  • Sex and the married man: Benjamin Franklin's families / Jan Lewis
  • Petitioning with the left hand: educating women in Benjamin Franklin's America / Mary Kelley
  • Franklin, women, and American cultural myths / Carla Mulford
  • Salons and power in the era of revolution: from literary coteries to epistolary enlightenment / Susan Stabile.