POL320Y1 Lecture Notes - Upper Class, Misogyny, Constitution Of The United Kingdom
17 Dec 2013
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Feminism and canon (charlotte witt: the canon as misogynist, explicit misogyny, gendered concepts, gendered package, revising the canon, retrieval of women voices, appropriating the canon, reread the canon for feminist agenda. She struggled financially all her life, had an abuse father. She doesn"t talk about politics (constitutions, governments) in her vinidictation. Talks about characters that women have developed. Every being can be virtuous through the principle of perfectability (barriers to this are cultural norms) In order for enlightenment to be success, we need a revolution in society and culture. 335 tyranny and slavery: strengthen the female by cultivating it, obeidience, tyrants and sentralists, former wants slaves and the latter for play things: men see women as sexual objects, thus women internalize this idea. It"s analogous to tyranny: what it means to be a woman is constructed by the society. Ideal character tied to rationality, influenced by male philosophers. Courtiers are constructed by society, their soul is behind them.
