Western Civilization II / Unit 6 WC2 0518 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Human Rights, Abolition, and the Women Left Out: Wollstonecraft, 1792
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The idea
Rationalism plus a new sensibility of shared humanity produced the rights of man: abolitionism, torture and slavery reconceived as injustice. Women were left out. Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman of seventeen ninety-two demanded the Revolution's liberating promise for them.
In practice
The witness: women, like men, rational beings.
Where people slip
Ch. 11 says ninety-one; ch. 13 and the witness, ninety-two.
Your place on the trail
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