In her introduction, Wollstonecraft (2017) states, “I dismiss those pretty feminine phrases that the men condescendingly use to make our slavish dependence easier for us” (p. 5). What does Wollstonecraft mean by this, and how does it relate to A Doll’s House? Find and quote at least three examples of Torvald Helmer “condescendingly” using “feminine phrases” when talking about his wife, Nora
In her introduction, Wollstonecraft (2017) states, “I dismiss those pretty feminine phrases that the men condescendingly use to make our slavish dependence easier for us” (p. 5). What does Wollstonecraft mean by this, and how does it relate to A Doll’s House? Find and quote at least three examples of Torvald Helmer “condescendingly” using “feminine phrases” when talking about his wife, Nora
Mary Wollstonecraft was a philosopher and an advocate of women's rights during the 18th century A.D. Despite being a philosopher, her work is of importance to sociology, and especially, feminist sociology since it seeks to understand the power dynamics and other complexities of a society in their relation to gender, at both, micro and macro-levels. Wollstonecraft is most famous for her work, "A Vindication of the Rights of Women," in which she writes that women are not inferior to men, but it only appears to be the case because they lack education. Consequently, she says that, both, men and women, should be treated equally as beings capable of engaging in rational thinking, and longs for a social order that is based on reason.
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