SOAN 2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cartesian Doubt, Mastectomy, John Locke
7 Apr 2014
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Born in newcastle to a respectable family. From a young age she was deeply religious. She also shared the staunch conservative politics of the established church: the divine right of the sovereign to rule and no toleration for dissent. Large concern for women"s education and proposed a college for women. Never married, and lived alone in a time where respectable women did not. Arguably the first systematic feminist theoretician in the west, also a pioneer methodologist and political polemicist. Died at age 65 due to breast cancer, despite a double mastectomy without anesetic. Appears mainly in her books on women, beginning with her witty and provocative. Serious proposal for the ladies (part 1 was published 1694, part 2 was published 1697) Serious proposal for the ladies was her most popular publication. Some reflections upon marriage based on an actual case demonstrating the legal disabilities of women, published 1700.
