Mary Wollstonecraft wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" as a critique of existing ideas regarding women in the eighteenth century.
This Video will discuss her early life, give some context regarding women's social status in Britain, and discuss Wollstonecraft's arguments in "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman." It will mainly focus on her criticism of the commonly held idea that women are 'natural' inferior to men, which was reiterated by influential figures such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
References:
Godwin, W. (1798). Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft (1st ed.).
Mary, W. (2010). A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Verso.
Midgley, C. (2007). Feminism and Empire Women Activists in Imperial Britain 1790-1865 (pp. 13-40). Routledge.
O'Brien, K. (2009). Good manners and partial civilisation in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft. In Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. (pp. 173-200). Cambridge University Press.
Rousseau, J. (2004). Emile Julie and Other Writings (10th ed., pp. 487-591). Project Gutenberg eBook.
Weiss, D. (2017). The Female Philosopher and Her Afterlives: Mary Wollstonecraft, the British Novel, and the Transformations of Feminism, 1796-1811 (p. 1). Springer.
20 май 2020