Showing posts with label Mary Wollstonecraft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mary Wollstonecraft. Show all posts

Sunday, 20 February 2011

Wollstonecraft Seminar Papers

The topic of our latest seminar was Mary Wollstonecraft, who was essentially the first feminist. She took a lot of influence from Rousseau, and made of point of having a go at women as a opposed to just men, like most feminists seem to these days. One example was when she wrote about the differences between men and women when they undertake a journey. She says that men only think about the destination, whereas women think about what they might see on the way, and what problems might occur, and other flippant thoughts.

I think you'll gain a better understanding of her views by reading a couple of seminar papers written by two of my coursemates: Uldduz and Ali