Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Mary Wollstonecraft, Lucretia Mott, Olive Gilbert
14 Jul 2016
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Mary wollstonecraft, a vindication of the rights of woman. Response to jean jacques rousseau"s views on women. Rousseau: genevan philosopher, writer, composer of the 18th century. Women are socially unequal both in the sense of his theory and with all the issues of discrimination that women are currently exposed to. Argued that natural inequalities are the root of social inequalities. Rousseau"s theory suggests that women are naturally disadvantaged. Women are the sex that ought to obey . Debunked myths of women"s dependence, feminine frailties, and female helplessness. Women have seldom sufficient serious employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits, frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense. In short, the whole tenor of female education (the education of society) tends to render the best disposed, romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.
