ENGLISH 2M06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mary Wollstonecraft, Libertine, French Revolution

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 2M06
• Professor: Trophy

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Choose 1 out of 2 questions on which to write an essay. Key objectives: to determine how thoroughly you have been engaging with our course readings, lectures, and concepts to date and to see how you demonstrate your essay- writing skills, ie constructing a thesis etc. Your essay should be 4-5 paragraphs long. Intro, thesis, supporting details, definitions, and arguments, and a reflective conclusion (but not repeat) You will be asked to make reference to at least 2, up to 3 of the required course readings. On national education, chapter xii of a vindication of the rights of woman. Directly disputes burke"s take on the french revolution. She sees a founding of reason in which women can take up their place as equals in the political order. Overall focus: the politicization of gender, she is drawing an analogy between political tyranny and gender tyranny. The arbitrary power of kings over people>power of men over women/husbands>wives.