Men's Voices on Women - 18th Century
Men's writings on women and women's history in the eighteenth century (1700s).
Rousseau on Women and Education
A short selection from Rousseau on the proper approach to education for women.
Defoe, Daniel: Education of Women (1719)
From this essay: "I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world... that we deny the advantages of learning to women."
Rousseau: Confessions
Text version of Rousseau's "Confessions." His theory of women's inferiority and uneducability is within this larger work.