Mary Wollstonecraft's Concern For Sexual Morality

Austen make Mr. Darcy fall in love with Mary, who is extremely focused on learning and interested in developing her attributes? Even though Austen emphasizes the importance of female instruction, in comparing Elizabeth and Mary it is possible to understand why the first is considered attractive and the other is a dull character: Though both women are educated similarly, and both are avid readers, Mary cannot form an opinion of her own. Through the character of Mary, Austen parodies those people unable

Meg Bogin's The Women Troubadours What is Bieiris de Romans’ speaker seeking from the woman, Maria, about whom Bieiris writes? More generally, what are female troubadours as a whole seeking from their loves, and their craft? Meg Bogin, in her The Women Troubadours, asserts that “their poems were addressed to women… to whom they vowed eternal homage and obedience. In exchange for their prostration, the troubadours expected to be ennobled, enriched, or simply made ‘better’” (Bogin, 9). Is

Updating Motherhood 2.0: Science and the Enlightenment of Women Before there was the enlightenment of women there was a scientific revolution. And one of the critical facts of that transformation was a notion by the men of science that they should not look back to the works and understandings of the past (Brown, 2008). Without the benefit of objective theories and practices, that knowledge was at best untrustworthy and surely contaminated by the minds of the untrained. In such an environment