2006-10-04 16:03:09 · 2 answers · asked by Sabrina N 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
Feminist thought began during The Enlightenment with such thinkers as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Marquis de Condorcet championing women's education and many liberals, such as Jeremy Bentham, demanding equal rights for women in every sense. One of the early modern proponents of feminist themes was Mexican nun, Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695), particularly in her essay entitled "Reply to Sor Philotea". The first scientific society for women was founded in Middelburg, a city in the south of the Dutch republic, in 1785. Journals for women which focused on issues like science became popular during this period as well. Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is one of the first works that can unambiguously be called feminist, although by modern standards her comparison of women to the nobility, the elite of society, coddled, fragile, and in danger of intellectual and moral sloth, does not sound like a feminist argument. Wollstonecraft believed that both sexes contributed to this situation and took it for granted that women had considerable power over men.
2006-10-04 16:05:53 · answer #1 · answered by kitkatish1962 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-10-04 23:09:57 · answer #2 · answered by rangerhonor 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋