The_Women_in_Enlightenment_启蒙运动时期的女性.ppt

1、-刘红梅 廖畅,Women in the Enlightenment,Purpose of the Enlightenment,Its purpose was to reform society using reason, challenge ideas grounded in tradition and faith, and advance knowledge through the scientific method.,Contents,Facts of condition Vindication of the Rights of Woman,Facts of condition,Abou

2、t education About job About economic position,Education,Girls from well off families went to school Learning “display” quality rather than science and philosophy.,female,male,Job,In 18th century, women were slowly moved out of certain jobs. (such as barber-surgeon ) They spent most time at home. Too

3、k care of the children. If their family owned a farm, they can ran the farm.,Womens economic condition,Womens rights to own property and run businesses are seriously restricted Women are not allowed to own property or land Women could not control their own land Even women with dowries or inheritance

4、s were subjected to the financial control of their husbands,British writer philosopher feminist advocating womens rights,Mary Wollstonecraft,A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 女权辩护,Published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was the first great feminist treatise. Wollstonecraft preache

5、d that intellect will always govern and seek “to persuade women to endeavour to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness.”,A Vindicatio

6、n of the Rights of Woman,Published in 1792 One of the most important books of feminist works The first great feminist treatise (专著),It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion, that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the p