SOAN 2111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Age Of Enlightenment, Mary Wollstonecraft
2 Mar 2013
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Chapter 4: perfectibility through education rousseau"s emile and sophy. He published emile in this publication, he advocated breast-feeding and opposed to the swaddling of infants: he was influential in doing this many mothers starting nursing their own babies. Sophy: the final part of rousseau"s work that he sets forth his principles for the education of women, the natural differences between the sexes requires that they be educated differently, sophy = a woman. Rousseau believes that the human being is naturally good. A child"s earliest education is most importantly and is a women"s work. If the author of nature had meant to assign it to men he would have given them milk to feed the child. A child must be taught how preserve his own life when he becomes a man, how to bear the ups and downs of fortune, how to live, etc. Refusal of mothers to fulfill their first duty and to nurse their own children =
