POL320Y1 Lecture Notes - Bridle, Moral Agency, Gentleness
22 Jan 2013
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Mary wollstencraft: a vindication of the rights of women. This feminist reading by wollstencraft begins with the gender reality of her time which was extremely unequal. She attributes the role and subjugation of women to the tyrannical amount of power man has held over the role of women. Men and women are given two different and very unequal guidelines to achieving virtue. Men are ignorant, thus they are guided by that ignorance in their suppression of women. From birth they are taught to be genteel and delicate flowers that are pure and docile in manner content on following the heels of man. Men are doing a great injustice in keeping women in a constant childlike state. The education received is always shaped by the society an individual lives in. For wollstencraft, the perfect education would be one that results in the individual"s independent pursuit of virtue from their exercise of reason.
