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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.
- Jone Johnson Lewis
Jun 5, 2014 · In what follows, I sketch Rousseau’s understanding of women, largely from the material of Book V of his Emile, offer thoughts on the possible role of women in the Social Contract, and survey how some contemporary scholars seek to make sense of his conception of women in relation to his politics.
- David Lay Williams
- 2014
ROUSSEAU IS DEAS and arguments about women-their nature, their education, and their proper place in the social and political order- are worthy of thorough examination for two important reasons.
May 4, 2016 · In a Tortoiseshell: In the paper below, Ali Houston challenges Rousseau’s ideas about the natural inferiority of women. She showcases effective evidence and analysis by picking selected fragments from Rousseau’s overarching theories and responding to them with clear, well-implemented counterarguments. download printable PDF.
Shmoop breaks down key quotations from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Women and Femininity Quotes Rousseau declares that a woman should never, for a moment, feel herself independent, that she should be governed by fear to exercise her natural cunning, and made a coquettish slave in order to re...
And yet, when Rousseau writes about women in Book Five of Emile, the character ideal which he offers and urges educators to inculcate, seems the complete antithesis of all that. Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man's judgement.
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View all Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes. Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Men speak of what they know; women of what pleases them.
