ENG100H1 Lecture Notes - Suffrage, Laudanum
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She is trying to construct a female identity p. 544. Common argument is that woman don"t get taught the same thing as men because then they become above others. First precedent: ortencious he taught his daughter all of his art so that she could be just as talented. She believed that there was no way for women to expand into the public sphere so shes trying to explain how women can use the liberal arts to affect policy without affecting the rest of the world. This shows that there is something inbetween the domestic sphere and the public sphere. She also discusses how aristocratic women should conduct themselves. One common weapon that women had was gossip because reputations were very important. P. 547- talking about war- she says that it is her job to talk men out of going to war. She was one of very few rhetoricians not in the traditional sense but to write about politics etc. , in the west.