WGS200Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Consciousness Raising, Judith Butler
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Frankenstein: mary shelley wrote story, mary wollstonecraft was her mother west, 1759-1797, french/us revolution, noted as one of the first feminists to write about women"s rights in the. Incorporate women into public: reliance on human reason. 3: wrote vs. view of women as weak and childlike , women need education to become rational a. If women could be educated all the men of power would see that they could be in government, just as reasonable or unreasonable as men: move away from feudalism, dukes, lords, etc. Inheritance: vote, own property c, bank accounts, professions, canadian women used brooms to clean up political mess . First women admitted into u of t in 1884: due to agency, women"s literary club. Elizabeth cady stanton: big feminist in first wave, against slavery. Injected race into the issue which split the first wave issue: synergy of first wave was lost.