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Feminist philosophy
Major works
Major theorists
Mary Wollstonecraft
Simone de Beauvoir
Betty Friedan
Shulamith Firestone
Gloria Steinem
Angela Davis
Gloria Watkins ("bell hooks")
Gerda Lerner
Judith Butler
Key concepts
Feminism
Gender
Gender equality
Gender performativity
of William Godwin's Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798).
The Rights of Womanwas actually well received when it was first published in 1792. One
biographer has called it "perhaps the most original book of [Wollstonecraft's] century".
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Contents
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1 Historical context
2 Themes
2.2 Feminism
2.3 Sensibility
2.4 Republicanism
2.5 Class
4 Revision
6 See also
7 Notes
8 Bibliography
Historical context[edit]
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Let us bring up women, not to aspire to advantages which the Constitution denies them, but
to know and appreciate those which it guarantees them . . . Men are destined to live on the
stage of the world. A public education suits them: it early places before their eyes all the
scenes of life: only the proportions are different. The paternal home is better for the
education of women; they have less need to learn to deal with the interests of others, than to
accustom themselves to a calm and secluded life.
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Olympe de Gouges
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