PHIL 201 : ENGL 206 January 30.docx

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 201
• Professor: David Anderson

Document Summary

What has changed and what has stayed the same: portrait of marie antoinette, look at the waistline, suggests that if you want this power, you have to look the part, styles of dress in the day, women being there purely for display, fashion begins to change, paris still dominant in terms of fashion, with the revolution comes a revolution in dress, wollstonecraft portrait, dress designed for comfort, simplicity (one piece of fabric, her problem with the dresses of the day was that they subtracted from natural beauty, not a fan of painting i. e. makeup. Some common views of women in the late 18th/early 19th centuries: women were failed men; a fetus not fully developed in the womb, women were ruled by emotion and incapable of rational thought, women were frivolous and vain, women were not to be trusted sexually, they had to be closely watched/controlled to ensure they didn"t engage in illicit sexuality (any pre or extramarital sex)