HIST111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Phlegm, Mary Wollstonecraft, Utopia
31 Mar 2016
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The history of women during & before the enlightenment is a retrospective view. Moreover, few efforts made to document the lives of women of that time period. Overview between 17th and 18th century, women"s status decreases increase in women jobs in factories, but looked down upon as hard labour decrease in people buying women"s homemade fabrics. Medieval inheritance legally - women have secondary status. But do women count, and what should they get educated for: natural rights women"s physically larger hips and pelvis than head = lust>reason. Social context enlightenment: culture of reform and progress, usually individual rights, social welfare, economics, education: women lost economic position over 17th-18th centuries. 1600s 60% business owned or administered by women in. John locke education views helped women"s status tabula rasa had 2 implications: women are not born inherently sinful. 2. education is important in shaping people"s morals, emphasizing virtue.
