Week 3

Question 1

What happens during the enlightenment?

Answer 1

People begin to become radicalized and want to be free. One of the advocators for this is Mary Wollstonecraft.

Question 2

How was Mary Wollstonecraft viewed?

Answer 2

She was viewed as irrational and emotional. Burke was defended as a result to keep the church, monarchy, and aristocracy

Question 3

What did Mary Wollstonecraft do?

Answer 3

She violated the public sphere and argued for women to be included because they reasoned. A simple reason to qualify.

Question 4

What were some arguments of Wollstonecraft?

Answer 4

Women lack reason not because of nature but because of nurture. They are left out of stuff from their education

Question 5

What is true about binary thinking and women of color?

Answer 5

Although the binary was reinforced, it was not applied to women of color.

Question 6

What was the goal of liberal feminists?

Answer 6

To allow women to integrate into society and take positions that normally were only for men

Question 7

How did liberal feminist thinking emerge?

Answer 7

Liberal thinking a product of Enlightenment colonial powers: much of the world and its people are viewed as objects (of fascination, pity, contempt)

Question 8

What impacted the liberal feminist thinking?

Answer 8

This belief in innate superiority in “Nature” impacted Liberal Feminist views of race, of sexuality, of class