BF190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mary Wollstonecraft, French Revolution, Radicle
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Considered one of the founders of feminism. Wollsto(cid:374)e(cid:272)(cid:396)aft e(cid:272)hoes ka(cid:374)t(cid:859)s a(cid:396)gu(cid:373)e(cid:374)t fo(cid:396) the u(cid:374)i(cid:448)e(cid:396)sal hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:272)apa(cid:272)it(cid:455) a(cid:374)d (cid:396)ight to think critically, but notes that this capacity and right have not been attributed or granted to women. Wollstonecraft demonstrates that a woman can think critically at least as well as any man and does not shy away from the difficult notion that oppressed people may in some cases take pleasure in their oppression. Women are rational agents because if they are treated as such they will become rational agents. She was vilified as a feminist then saint after the fact. She thought men and women need to be equal. She was a pioneer in the feminist movement. She had a child out of wedlock. Saw the world around her and knew she needed to say something. Her arguments a lot like l"ouverture are logical extensions from the enlightenment and.
