HIST 1500Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Mary Wollstonecraft, Marquis De Condorcet, Mixed-Sex Education
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Had a list on him of women who were feminists, thought they should die. Had clear motivations: engineering is a man dominated field, one girl who survived the shot told the killer he was not a feminist. Family, marriage (under authority of men, women had to have sex with men whenever they wanted) Law (court could say that the man was reasonable in his use of force against women) Absence and limitations of political rights (no right to vote, to be elected, could not be judge or lawyer) Religion (catholic church women cannot be priests) Society and culture (girls are educated differently, offered different toys, be in different classes) Marie-josephte corriveau: was hanged when she was 30, farmers daughter, married twice, first one died, sentences to death for assassination of second husband, trial was controversial, 2 trials. First one; father said he did it. Body was hanged in a cage at a busy intersection in quebec city.
