GSWS 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Constitution Of The United Kingdom, Wield, Utopian Socialism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Gender Sexuality & Wom St
• Course: GSWS 102
• Professor: Jen Marchbank

Document Summary

Ideological roots of socialist feminism = late 18th century -> radical egalitarianism of 1790s. Mary wollstonecraft= vindication of the rights of woman pushed for female emancipation into. Late 18th (cid:272)e(cid:374)tur(cid:455)= (cid:449)riti(cid:374)g o(cid:374) (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s positio(cid:374) aroused fro(cid:373) literatio(cid:374) tea(cid:272)hers, refor(cid:373)ers, radical novelists, journalists, poets. The simple principles mary had in mind were those which had inspired an entire generation of. These pri(cid:374)(cid:272)iples though (cid:449)ere far older tha(cid:374) mar(cid:455)"s (cid:448)ersio(cid:374) of the(cid:373) Mary claimed women were inferior due to the male-defined social order which consigned women to a crippling way of life. Wanted to effect a revolution in female manners: restore to them their lost dignity and make then a part of the human species, reform themselves to reform the world. Claimed women were just sexual toys, expected to do nothing but supervise servants and create simple chatter. Vindication is usually described as the founding text of modern bourgeois feminism.