Political Science 2237E Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Sexual Slavery, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin
7 Feb 2018
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Week 16 mary wollstonecraft on the rights of women. 1759 doctors were trying out resuscitation on dead bodies if they were still warm. 1795 mary tried to commit suicide twice and was resuscitated. Writer, philosopher, advocate of human rights, author. Regarded marriage as an institution of sexual slavery. Born into a middle class family whose father was an alcoholic and regularly beat her mother. Because of her resistance to marriage she had a number of relationships out of wedlock. After giving birth to her daughter she died from complications. Because her life choices were considered scandalous and because her husband. William godwin wrote a memoir about her life, her reputation was highly tainted for a long time. Rousseau said that women are made to please men: nature has endowed women to endow mens passions, women"s charms should be used to compel a man to discover his true strengths. What makes human beings distinct: reason.
