RELG 203 Chapter Notes - Chapter ---: Olympe De Gouges, Mary Astell, Mary Wollstonecraft
16 Oct 2015
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Although the feminist movement grew tremendously in the 60s the roots can be traced back all the way to the 1700s. Book objective: give a what happened when" overview: identify key texts and figures. Chambers dictionary: advocacy of women"s rights, or the movement for the advancement and emancipation of women : this is the definition preferred by the author. French revolution, 1789: while there were great female leaders before that, sisterhood wasn"t their motivation. A few women stand out: christine de pizan (1364-1430) Didn"t want to accept women were weaker than men and more likely to fall to evil: mary astell (1666-1731) Wrote reflections on marriage, one of the earliest feminist texts: aphra behn (1640-1689) Established english woman playwright: while these women were great, they were too far apart to change the status quo. The spread of industrialization gave way to the separation between men"s work" and. Women"s work": this rubbed some women the wrong way.
