This PDF 1.3 document has been generated by Microsoft PowerPoint / Mac OS X 10.6.8 Quartz PDFContext, and has been sent on pdf-archive.com on 07/11/2016 at 23:13, from IP address 191.113.x.x.
The current document download page has been viewed 452 times.
File size: 2.46 MB (13 pages).
Privacy: public file
Chernock, A. 2006. CulNvaNng women: men’s
pursuit of intellectual equality in the late
BriNsh Enlightenment. Journal of Bri,sh Studies
43 (3): 511-‐531.
HIN 4312-‐15 Cultura Británica, Dr. Jason Kendall Moore, Universidad de Playa Ancha, Campus San Felipe, Segundo Semester 2013
Eighteenth-‐century women were viewed as
incapable of reason or argument due to their
socializaNon. They were used to rearing
children and doing housework, not to engaging
in men’s intellectual arguments. One author
referred to them as a “poor capNve bird” who
once freed finds itself incapable of adapNng to
the world outside its cage, for which reason it
gives up and “sings itself to sleep.”
HIN 4312-‐15 Cultura Británica, Dr. Jason Kendall Moore, Universidad de Playa Ancha, Campus San Felipe, Segundo Semester 2013
Some of the individuals who most
passionately defended women’s
rights [and abiliNes] were men,
most notably Thomas Starling
Norgate, a radical journalist,
whose posiNon was influenced by
that of many women, though “he
did more than simply parrot.”
HIN 4312-‐15 Cultura Británica, Dr. Jason Kendall Moore, Universidad de Playa Ancha, Campus San Felipe, Segundo Semester 2013
Norgate was one of many “nonconformist
middle-‐class BriNsh men” who took it upon
himself “to assist women in achieving
intellectual emancipaNon.” However, many
others tacitly accepted gender stereotypes.
The originality of this arNcle lies in its focus on
men, as most studies of eighteenth-‐century
feminism neglect them or portray all men as
hosNle or at best “cauNously supporNve.”
HIN 4312-‐15 Cultura Británica, Dr. Jason Kendall Moore, Universidad de Playa Ancha, Campus San Felipe, Segundo Semester 2013
Men like Norgate viewed women’s rights as an
essenNal part of the universal ideals to which
the Enlightenment was devoted. Foremost
among their objecNves was securing equal
educaNon for women, as consistent with John
Locke’s Essay Concerning Human
Understanding, which held that educaNon was
the key to progress and “skill was acquired
rather than innate… Difference was the effect,
not the cause, of unequal educaNons.”
HIN 4312-‐15 Cultura Británica, Dr. Jason Kendall Moore, Universidad de Playa Ancha, Campus San Felipe, Segundo Semester 2013
Another writer put it more bluntly: “ There is
no sex in minds, and the female understanding
is at least equal in power to that of the male.”
A Cambridge University scholar referred to the
widespread view that women were incapable
of intellectual endeavors as “a groundless
prejudice.”
HIN 4312-‐15 Cultura Británica, Dr. Jason Kendall Moore, Universidad de Playa Ancha, Campus San Felipe, Segundo Semester 2013
Essayist William Enfield, a
colleague of Norgate, wrote:
“The tree of knowledge,
planted by the hand of nature,
in an open plain, invites every
passenger to partake of its
bounty; and man, instead of
rudely hedging it round with
thorns, to deter the approach
of women, ought to assist her
in plucking the fruit from those
branches which may happen to
hang about her reach.”
HIN 4312-‐15 Cultura Británica, Dr. Jason Kendall Moore, Universidad de Playa Ancha, Campus San Felipe, Segundo Semester 2013
The educaNonal system “seemed at every stage designed to
undermine female potenNal.” Some held that it poisoned the
minds of young women by encouraging them to take up
cooking, sewing, dancing, languages, etc., rather than the
sciences, commerce, and poliNcs.
HIN 4312-‐15 Cultura Británica, Dr. Jason Kendall Moore, Universidad de Playa Ancha, Campus San Felipe, Segundo Semester 2013
Locke stressed that educaNon was really a
synonym for culture or “the whole range of
social interacNons throughout one’s life.” That
is why many men felt guilty about the status of
women. Men were a part of the system that
disenfranchised “the fairer sex” and therefore
they felt a special responsibility to oppose
injusNce.
HIN 4312-‐15 Cultura Británica, Dr. Jason Kendall Moore, Universidad de Playa Ancha, Campus San Felipe, Segundo Semester 2013
CBR-02 Enlightened Feminism.pdf (PDF, 2.46 MB)
Use the permanent link to the download page to share your document on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or directly with a contact by e-Mail, Messenger, Whatsapp, Line..
Use the short link to share your document on Twitter or by text message (SMS)
Copy the following HTML code to share your document on a Website or Blog