The Sex Panic of the 1790s and the Politicization of Women's Education in the Early American Republic

Authors

Rebecca Stanwick, Bowling Green State UniversityFollow

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Description

Join the Center for Women and Gender Equity for our Research Seminar with Rebecca Stanwick! Rebecca is an Assistant Teaching Professor - Reference and Instruction Librarians at Jerome Library. She is currently a PhD candidate in the History of Education at the University of Toledo writing her dissertation on sex panics, gender construction, and women's education in early America. This presentation seeks to understand how the conceptualization of women's education in the nineteenth century, with its emphasis on domestic education, was a deliberate and direct response to the sex panic of the 1790s by elite white men to solidify political power and subvert feminist claims of female equality.

Publication Date

10-25-2023

Recommended Citation

Stanwick, Rebecca, "The Sex Panic of the 1790s and the Politicization of Women's Education in the Early American Republic" (2023). Center for Women and Gender Equity Research Seminar Series. 9.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/cwge_research_seminar/9