WMST 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mary Astell, Mary Wollstonecraft, Henry Fielding
10 Feb 2018
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Midterm: 20 mc, essay answer (3 options: think in terms of broad terms and elements discussed in class. Include examples about who said it: study from study guide. Many things that have occurred (i. e. tweet) we have not progressed as far as we thought. This was forward for this time (tom johns) Use rape as an allegory: talk about all kind of reductions of freedom, about corruption of power, treated as a farce. Ironically, suggests that women have creative power in their writing despite it undermining patriarchal frameworks. Mary wollstonecraft the vindication for the rights of women. Known for a vindication of the rights of women. V wolfe: only in the 20th century did we wrap our heads around what she was saying, was: saw how innovative she was, works made it possible for women writers. Jenny trout (u of t) licesnced to practice medicine in 19875 but took years for females to go to medical school.
