JAV200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mary Wollstonecraft, Queer Theory, French Revolution
9 Mar 2018
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Women lose promotion opportunities due to maternity leave early on in their career. Masculine vs feminine jobs: social gaps in rhetoric of language -- job descriptions. Started a school with her sisters and was a translator and editor. Key works: vindication of the rights of men, letter to the right honourable edmund burke, vindication of the rights of women. In contrast to descartes, empiricism of british was the background of his theory: formulated ideas of beauty from ideas of pleasure. Ideas were laid out but no immediate effect (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s rights (cid:449)ere a lo(cid:374)g (cid:271)attle. Plato: women were allowed to rule in the republic, witch hunts of the medieval and renaissance europe, women used to have a lot of knowledge in medicine, not exclusive misogynistic attacks. Is science fiction an inherently feminist genre: mary wollstonecraft shelley, frankenstein, science fiction is usually considered a young male genre, the first science fiction story was written by a woman.
