HIS205H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Elizabeth Vesey, Eveline, Public Sphere
4 Apr 2016
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Women and the enlightenment: enlightenment ideas about gender, women and enlightened culture. Women and culture: literarcy and commercialization of print culture. Literary market was expanding, more willing to publish texts offered by women: salonni res hosted cultural and intellectual elites. Also participated as scientists, scholars, artists, etc: still movement was restricted to elites and upper middle classes. Ideas about gender the woman question: nature vs culture, whether women are capable of perfectablity. The male is male only at certain moments. He identifies that women played worthy and important roles. Supposed to be affectionate mothers and wives, agreeable companion for husband. Women should have enough education to take care of infants and toddlers: social utility. I would still like a simple and coarsely raised girl a hundred times better than a learned and brilliant one - rousseau a number of women found that appealing. Women lay downt he first foundations of natural laws. saint-pierre.
