POLS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Papal States, Coverture, Arson
8 Feb 2015
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The first wave: enlightenment thinking and liberalism, primacy of human reason, rejection of transcendental order, observation only source of knowledge. Reason disembodied from nature and opposed to it. Human observing subject, objective knowledge: liberalism, individualism. Progressive - knowledge leads to change: reason can determine political system. Not eternal but conventional and so can change: first wave feminist thinkers. Did not question sex roles: women and reason, women and the rights of man. As human beings women have reason: subjugation of women. Only reason can determine what one is: education solves the problem. Educated society would not have gender hierarchies: the question of marriage and sex roles. First wave feminists on marriage and sex roles. The first wave movement: demands of the movement: Right to property right to education. Right to speak and write: legal rights (coverture) and suffrage a struggle, especially in uk, us, suffrage movement. Large numbers of women involved in uk and us: tactics.
