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WOMENLIT3DISC.docxA Vindication of the Rights of Women Discussion
Answer both of the following questions. Your answers should be well-developed paragraphs and should ideally include a quotation from the text you are discussing. As always, extra credit may be given for those who thoughtfully comment on the posts of classmates. 1) Read back over the passages from Renaissance Woman and Vindication of the Rights of Women. What is Mary Wollstonecraft's main objection to the way that women are thought of/educated at this time?
2) Mary Wollstonecraft mentions in A Vindication of the Rights of Women that she might be thought of as irreligious or atheistic. What viewpoints does she hold that are in conflict with Biblical teaching? Be specific in your answer.
Chudleigh, Cavendish, & Lanier Discussion
Answer EACH of the following questions in a well-developed paragraph, using quotes from the text to support your answers. 1) Compare and contrast two of the orations in Cavendish's work. Which one seems to you to be the best/most ideal view of women? Which one seems to you the least attractive view? 2) Discuss in particular the last two lines of "Eve's Apology." Connect them, if you can, to the behavior manuals we read last week. 3) Do you think Mary Chudleigh's advice to women is still useful? How has marriage changed and how has it stayed the same since she wrote this in the Renaissance? Are women still "freer" before marriage?
Browning & Rossetti Discussion
Answer BOTH of the following questions about the poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti. Each of your answers should be a well-developed paragraph, ideally including a quotation from the poem to support your point. As always, bonus points are available to students who comment thoughtfully (i.e. - something more than "I like your post") on the posts of their classmates. 1) In Browning's poem, "The Lady's Yes," she criticizes a man for how he woos (flirts/tries to win) her. What are her complaints about how the man goes about it? How does this depict the woman vs. the man in the courtship/relationship? 2) In Rossetti's poem "In An Artist's Studio," she describes the way a man has painted a woman. She says he painted her, "Not as she is, but how she filled his dreams." What do you think Rossetti might be trying to say about the way men depict women in art? How does this relate with The Male Gaze (look back at terminology Power Point for help).
RESOURCES
Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Christina Rossetti Poems
· Elizabeth Barrett Browning
· "How Do I Love Thee" (Links to an external site.) https://poets.org/poem/how-do-i-love-thee-sonnet-43
· "The Lady's Yes" (Links to an external site.) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43727/the-ladys-yes
· Christina Rossetti
· "In An Artist's Studio" (Links to an external site.) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/146804/in-an-artist39s-studio
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-diamond-or-a-coal/
CHUDLEIGH
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43943/to-the-ladies
Excerpts from A Vindication of the Rights of Women
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
By Mary Wollstonecraft
About the Text: This book was one of the first confirmed feminist works of literature. In it, Mary Wollstonecraft calls for all women to have an education suited to their position in society (up to this point, virtually no women were educated, as men did not see a need). Wollstonecraft says that women should be educated because they are the ones raising the future generations of children, and that they should be on equal footing as partners with their husbands, not just property to be traded in marriage or a means of making children.
Wollstonecraft is, in many ways, responding to the preponderance (large number) of behavior manuals written by men for women during the Renaissance; you read some excerpts of these from Renaissance Woman. She says specifically, “Women are capable of rationality; it only appears that they are not, because men have refused to educate them and encouraged them to be frivolous.” In other words, Wollstonecraft says that men have denied women an education, and then told them they could not participate in adult society because they didn’t have an education!
Click here (Links to an external site.) to download the PDF of the full work. You are welcomed to read as much as you like, but you are required only to read Chapter 2: The Prevailing Opinion about Sexual Differences (12 - 25) and Chapter 5: Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt (pp 53 - 61). This particular section addresses the philosophy of Jean Jacques Rousseau and what he believed about how women should be educated; then Wollstonecraft responds to his beliefs.
