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- In this work, Rousseau suggests that women are responsible for educating the young while arguing that they are incapable of reason. “The whole education of women ought to be relative to men. To please them, to be useful to them, to make themselves loved and honored by them, to educate them when young..."
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Jul 14, 2019 · Mary Wollstonecraft addresses some of the points Rousseau made about women in "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" and other writings in which she asserts that women are logical and can benefit from education. She questions whether a woman’s purpose is only the pleasure of men.
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Rousseau’s attitude on women as dependent on men comes when he said, “A woman's education must be planned in relation to man... and she will never be free to set her own opinion above his” (Jean-Jacques, 2013: 393, 399).
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Rousseau legitimises female subjection to male sexual advances as a form of punishment; he defends men who ignore women's refusal to have sex; and he underwrites the tradition of refusing to believe
Apr 24, 2015 · Rousseau argues that females should be taught to “please men…and make [men’s] lives agreeable and sweet.” The question becomes how could Rousseau make such strident claims, especially in light of his far more insightful ideas concerning the education of males.
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May 4, 2016 · In this paper, written for a modern political theory course, Ali Houston picks apart the bold assertions and underlying assumptions made by Jean-Jacques Rousseau regarding women in his Discourses.
Evidence suggests that the feminist consensus on Jean-Jacques Rousseau “misogyny” is breaking down.1 New studies are emerging that bring to light the many sympathetic portrayals of women in Rousseau’s works and the important role he ascribed to women within the family.
To Rousseau, female virtue was not simply something to be defended by fathers and husbands but rather a moral quality and a set of behaviors that are a model for all. One year later, in 1762, Rousseau’s Émile or Treatise on Education came out.
