JAV200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Emma Goldman, Queer Theory, Simone De Beauvoir
10 Feb 2017
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Born in london, england not to a wealthy family as her family left all of their wealth based on the weaving business of her grandfather. Was educated by a clergyman and his wife did re(cid:272)ei(cid:448)ed (cid:862)for(cid:373)al(cid:863) edu(cid:272)atio(cid:374) like upper-class children. She put her family first acted as a nurse between family members when they were sick and smuggled her sister away from her husband. Her o(cid:272)(cid:272)upatio(cid:374) (cid:449)as (cid:862)a lady"s (cid:272)o(cid:373)pa(cid:374)io(cid:374), a s(cid:272)hooltea(cid:272)her, a(cid:374)d a go(cid:448)er(cid:374)ess(cid:863) Eventually, she started a school with her sister where she worked as a translator and editor. Context of the era that she wrote these documents: french revolution and the birth of. Universal human rights, the declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen (1789), the. Declaration of the right of woman and female citizen (1791) and edmund burke (a well- respected man in english society) Wrote a document entitled a philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the.
