SOAN 2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cartesian Doubt, Domestic Violence, Social Statistics

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2111
• Professor: Mark Hunter

Document Summary

Shared conservative politics of the established church the divine right of the sovereign to rule. Serious proposal for the ladies" : part 1 1694, part 2 1697. Some reflections upon marriage" (1700) based on an actual case demonstrating the legal disabilities of women. Learned the classics from her uncle the clergyman, she was a royalist interested in power and royal power. Established herself in chelsea with a group of wealthy aristocratic women. Developed proposals for a college for women. Her works were attacked by anti-feminists of the day. Has feminist values and interests in the worry of male supremacy and male power, but she still believes in sovereign/royal power and had a fierce opposition to locke"s going against authority". Allowed a limited place for innate" ideas. Cartesian terminology: not assessing anything just from first glance, defining knowledge in terms of very clear and distinct ideas, theology.