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Benjamin Franklin and women
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Benjamin Franklin and women

Author: Larry E Tise
Publisher: University Park, Pa., Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2000.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : State or province government publication : English
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Named Person: Benjamin Franklin; Benjamin Franklin
Material Type: Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Larry E Tise
ISBN: 0271020342 9780271020341 0271020350 9780271020358
OCLC Number: 42771743
Notes: Papers of the annual Franklin symposium, held in May 1994 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and co-sponsored by the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial and the Friends of Franklin, Inc.
Description: xxxi, 184 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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.
Responsibility: edited by Larry E. Tise.

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