BF190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mary Wollstonecraft, French Revolution, Toussaint Louverture
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~ forming norm that yes women can do things. ~ women were seen as property, not people. ~ believed that women have the same capacity to be just as or more rational than men. Key points - a vindication of the rights of women: ~ arguments are logical extensions form the enlightenment and the fr. Education for girls, women"s right to work and right to not marry. ~ gender roles must be socially constructed and changed. Nothing inate that makes women less rational. ~ key audience is other women (not so much anti-men but anti passive women) did not think that women should have power over men but over themselves. ~ like rousseau"s encouragement for common people to realize they have been duped, she wanted women to realize they can be more than slaves. ~ citizenship for all and in all places. ~ foundation of morality for all human beings - reason.
