HIS102Y1 Lecture 6: Lecture 6
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Binds education to the question of christian virtue. Focused on the subject of women s minds, learning. Suggests that men in society have primarily exulted women as beautiful objects and created this ideal for them to emulate. A serious proposal to the ladies: the case for women s minds. 1694 mary astell advocates a female monastery or religious retirement . Education will contribute to women who are religious. Suggests that the education that women are given at this time, do not give them the ability to provide useful function to their society. Education is really being given to women to basically prepare them for marriage. Compares them to animals, by depriving women to education, failure in society to develop their reason. The deceitful flatteries of those who under pretence of loving and admiring you, really served their own base ends . Even the men, as exact as they wo d seem, and as much as they divert themselves with our.
