(If there is a bookstore in St. Louis that will carry this book I will look at it but I doubt that I have exhaustive knowledge of the discourse it is part of)
When I read "Vindication Of The Rights Of Women" it was a LONG time ago (maybe 30 years) and I am not braving the chaos in the room where it is kept to find it but I think Wollstonecraft is saying that the novels and little dogs are a sign that women have been infantilized by society. The Enlightenment atmosphere in which Wollstonecraft is writing promises enormous change in the way that elites at least think and feel about the world and women because of poor sexist education are not confident that they can become part of this new future. Dorothea Brooke 50 years later still believes that a traditional classical education is the key to everything and has "her old companion Pascal".
I read "The Age Of Wonder" a somewhat shorter long time ago and was prompted to look up that Caroline Herschel did discover one nebula and 8 comets during Wollstonecraft's lifetime
I am now reading the World Cup special section in the Times and thinking about the new WNBA contract that may actually allow all of the players to make a living playing exclusively in the WNBA. Athletes come from all class backgrounds but if the faces of essentially any occupation have a sufficiently feminine image they buy relative gender freedom for everybody else.
(If there is a bookstore in St. Louis that will carry this book I will look at it but I doubt that I have exhaustive knowledge of the discourse it is part of)
When I read "Vindication Of The Rights Of Women" it was a LONG time ago (maybe 30 years) and I am not braving the chaos in the room where it is kept to find it but I think Wollstonecraft is saying that the novels and little dogs are a sign that women have been infantilized by society. The Enlightenment atmosphere in which Wollstonecraft is writing promises enormous change in the way that elites at least think and feel about the world and women because of poor sexist education are not confident that they can become part of this new future. Dorothea Brooke 50 years later still believes that a traditional classical education is the key to everything and has "her old companion Pascal".
I read "The Age Of Wonder" a somewhat shorter long time ago and was prompted to look up that Caroline Herschel did discover one nebula and 8 comets during Wollstonecraft's lifetime
I am now reading the World Cup special section in the Times and thinking about the new WNBA contract that may actually allow all of the players to make a living playing exclusively in the WNBA. Athletes come from all class backgrounds but if the faces of essentially any occupation have a sufficiently feminine image they buy relative gender freedom for everybody else.
(I did say "relative" but I forgot the Algerian boxer who gave the online right the vapors, sorry)