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Wollstonecraft on Sexual Politics

Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

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Women's Education - A Project to Reform Womens Education

She wanted an education for women that took them seriously as capable of rational thought. She felt that a rounded education couldn't just be the rational education. A sentimental education was a kind of disaster, she said. So this is a project to reform women's education as a means of reforming all education olcose it wouldn't make sense to make the boy's education go better,. But if you make the girl education go better, by implication, you are almost required to improve it for everyone. And she makes a similar argument when it comes to political participation. It may be the limits of her fearless but it's not cowardice.

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