The Vindications of “My blog post is not late…YES!”
Discard the title. excuse my word vomit: Reading “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, I found myself very confused to where I stood with Wollstone on her arguments. One thing that I feel really strongly about with Wollstone was her argument that went along the lines of rationality and how women should stop using […] Continue reading →
Wollstonecraft Me
Wollstonecraft’s argument was really not what I was expecting. It’s basically the “legalize, regulate, and tax” argument but applied to women’s right. I mean her argument is basically: Women are naturally inferior, so don’t make us more inferior else we won’t be able to be good mothers and wives; besides, women are going to try […] Continue reading →
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Video of lecture by Jill Fellows for the “Remake/Remodel” theme
UGGGGHHH
EWWW!!! To properly define my opinion I need to use a youthful word for disgust. There is no shame in my hatred for this book as it was a tortuous experience for me. I would never want to torture someone like this book has tortured me. If by now you haven’t guessed it I do […] Continue reading →
feminism!
I am actually genuinely sad that I had such an insane week/weekend last week, because this is a book I wish I’d already finished. I wonder why? Maybe because it’s about feminism! Not kind of hidden in the background feminism, or super aggressive feminism (Antigone’s Claim), but just a discussion. About feminism. I like her […] Continue reading →
Girls like us
I just noticed that it’s “The Rights of Men” but then “The Rights of Woman”, as opposed to “Women”. I wish I had a better starting sentence than that, but moving on… For starters, I like the cover photo of the Statue of Liberty and how it very neatly ties into the subject of freedom […] Continue reading →
power to the people?
I’m pretty sure that the blog title of this post is unrelated to what I’m writing about and maybe to what this book was about. It was either this or “rights of (wo)man”. I don’t know, my creative writing prof did say that sometimes your second ideas are your best. Moving on. Everybody seems to […] Continue reading →