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An investigation on women's rigths in Mary Wollstonecraft

2019
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Advisor: Doç. Dr. Aylin Çankaya

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Mary Wollstonecraft who is the first British feminist writer to criticize loudly by writing up that 230 years ago from our time, women were left uneducated by male dominat order society consciously, confined to the home by breaking their connections from social field. She advocated that by expanding women's horizons thanks to education and when physical and mental education which are suitable for them are given, they get rid of this blind obedience . Mary Wollstonecraft became an effective figure in the history of political thougth and mentioned the importance of women's education that constitue the aim of this thesis. By analazing 17th and 18th century philosophers Rousseau and Locke's philosophies of one-sided education for men, she criticizes them by saying whereas nature treats women and men equally, why do you create this discrimination? Wollstonecraft examined traditional roles of family and gender by advocating the view that ''the private one is political'' in her all works. He concluded that women may become better wives, citiziens and better mothers when they are provided equal education opportunities for them

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Gözde Kumcular

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Gözde Kumcular (Master Thesis). An investigation on women's rigths in Mary Wollstonecraft, 2019, Manisa Celal Bayar University.

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