SOC 608 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Emily Stowe, Gender Pay Gap, Socialist Feminism
29 Apr 2016
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Week 2: liberal, socialist and radical feminism (chapter. Started as white males, didn"t like lords and monarch power, and how they were severely taxing. To question things about society, churches would bring punishment, dangerous. French and american revolutions, new emerging capitalist classes that rebelled against monarchs. Man was a rational being, should be able to make choices based on rational thought. Not a movement yet, not activists, they are philosophers. M= individualism comes above everything else, up to you to work hard, you have the freedom to choose. Not looking at how your choice is subject to resources: education. 1774 mary wilstoncraft o o o argued concept of liberalism did not only relate to men girls need to have access to formal education. Women are not inherently (genetically) simply minded and irrational beings. These result due to the environment they are raised and subject to. Women did not have access to privatized or higher education.
