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.
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."
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."
The Quakers: George Fox & Friends
Chapter 1 of 1997 book by James Walvin, brings out clearly the role of women in Fox' early Quakerism. (Site requires registration.)
Chapter 1 of 1997 book by James Walvin, brings out clearly the role of women in Fox' early Quakerism. (Site requires registration.)
Rousseau: Confessions
Text version of Rousseau's "Confessions." His theory of women's inferiority and uneducability is within this larger work.
Text version of Rousseau's "Confessions." His theory of women's inferiority and uneducability is within this larger work.