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From Witches to Wives…. Early Modern Women from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Limiting Options. Joan Kelly Gadol , “Did Women Have a Renaissance” Return to classical texts and teaching Classical Values in the Protestant Reformation Increasing value of domestic roles.
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From Witches to Wives… Early Modern Women from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Limiting Options • Joan Kelly Gadol, “Did Women Have a Renaissance” • Return to classical texts and teaching • Classical Values in the Protestant Reformation • Increasing value of domestic roles
Witchcraft Persecutions (and Deaths) Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) anomie
Changing Philosophies? • Rene Descartes (1596-1650) • New philosophy • Cogito ergo sum • Cartesian dualism • Francois Poullain de la Barre (1647-1723)
Radical Feminism? • Margaret Cavendish (1661-1717) • Utopian visions of equality • Equality theoretically possible but culturally unlikely • Mary Astell (1661-1731) • Advocated absolute necessity of education for women
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) • Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) • Response to J-J Rousseau (1712-1778) • Necessity of equal education for men and women ACCORDING TO THEIR CLASS • Advocates co-education
Realities… • Women barred from most formal avenues of education • Women also often barred from publishing (unless with her husband’s permission)