WMST 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstonecraft, Peter Lely
27 Mar 2014
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Henry fielding"s rape upon rape, also known as the justice caught in his own. Debate upon the nature of women and women"s rights. Circulating in society and out there as the same time as a hardening of gender constructions; what is male?" what is female?". She is the complement and the subordinate in mind and body to the male half. Gender was constructed to reinforce the male dominance and patriarchal structure. Uses rape as an allegory to describe rape as a freedom. I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. Might have been the rst feminist manifesto. Her daughter was the author of frankenstein. We embrace stereotypes because they are habits. the mind is trained to accept these. Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman"s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming around round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. mary.
