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History- Women's Rights

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  • Early-mid 1700s
  • The reality was that women had nearly no rights. They could not own property or have access to education or public office.
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  • Come to the humanities seminar today! MEN ONLY
  • 1700s
  • I didn't do much today...
  • We discussed the current events today at the tavern and I also managed the farm and all our trading.
  • Even the Enlightenment thinkers were explicitly saying things like, "all men are created equal,"- Thomas Jefferson (1776). They also argued that the education of women should entirely be relative and to the benefit of their future husbands. So, despite arguing and celebrating ideas about reason, individual liberty, and natural rights, Enlightenment thinkers still kept incredibly traditional views about women.
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  • Late 1700s
  • They say women have no head for reason, and then they never once let us try. I'm tired of it. Educate us like men, and see how weak we really are.
  • Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer in the 1700s. She wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792, which explained how women are not inferior to men, they are just not given opportunities to be seen as independents.