Excerpts from the Original Electronic sex, from the prevalent fondness for pleasure which takes place of Because Wollstonecraft believes that women are naturally disposed to be mothers, she holds that taking on the duties of motherhood, in harmony with reason, is actually the path to independence for most women. {9}It is then an affection for the whole human race that . In the government of the If True happiness, I mean all the contentment, and virtuous satisfaction, that can be snatched in this imperfect state, must arise from well regulated affections; and an affection includes a duty. {11}Consider, sir, dispassionately these observations, for a glimpse of So singular, indeed, are my feelings, and I have endeavoured not to catch factitious ones, that after having been fatigued with the sight of insipid grandeur and the slavish ceremonies that with cumberous pomp supplied the place of domestic affections, I have turned to some other scene to relieve my eye by resting it on the refreshing green every where scattered by nature. For her, people who have a lot of wealth get a lot of respect that they don't really deserve. It I have then viewed with pleasure a woman nursing her children, and discharging the duties of her station with, perhaps, merely a servant maid to take off her hands the servile part of the household business. I entreat them to assist to emancipate their companion, to make her a help meet for them! participation of the natural rights of mankind, prove first, to subject by men who, considering females rather as women than human I may excite laughter, by dropping an hint, which I mean to pursue, some future time, for I really think that women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without having any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. For the same character, in some degree, will prevail in the aggregate of society: and the refinements of luxury, or the vicious repinings of envious poverty, will equally banish virtue from society, considered as the characteristic of that society, or only allow it to appear as one of the stripes of the harlequin coat, worn by the civilized man. reason; and thus augustly supported, the more understanding women It is a melancholy truth; yet such is the blessed effect of civilization! -Graham S. The unhealthy dynamics prevalent between men and women reflect unhealthy societal divisions. In how many ways do I wish, from the purest benevolence, to impress this truth on my sex; yet I fear that they will not listen to a truth that dear bought experience has brought home to many an agitated bosom, nor willingly resign the privileges of rank and sex for the privileges of humanity, to which those have no claim who do not discharge its duties. Let men become Whilst they are absolutely dependent on their husbands they will be cunning, mean, and selfish, and the men who can be gratified by the fawning fondness of spaniel-like affection, have not much delicacy, for love is not to be bought, in any sense of the words, its silken wings are instantly shrivelled up when any thing beside a return in kind is sought. observed the conduct of parents and the management of schools; but Wollstonecraft offers several examples of ways that women could become more useful and engaged in society. This essay thoroughly describes how women were treated and viewed through the eyes of others, mostly men, during the 18th century in England. creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and in their hearts, or to become the friends of the fellow-creatures As long as men live by their wealth and women live by their charms, “how can we expect them to discharge those ennobling duties which…require exertion and self-denial”? Who made man the exclusive judge, if woman partake with him of the . I deplore, and that women, in particular, are rendered weak and The being who discharges the duties of its station is independent; and, speaking of women at large, their first duty is to themselves as rational creatures, and the next, in point of importance, as citizens, is that, which includes so many, of a mother. Her remarks on governesses reflect her own unhappy experience as a governess in Ireland. The conduct and manners of women, in fact, usefulness are sacrificed to beauty; and the flaunting leaves, Burton was born in Kentucky. There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equality will not rest firmly even when founded on a rock, if one half of mankind be chained to its bottom by fate, for they will be continually undermining it through ignorance or pride. . Women might certainly study the art of healing, and be physicians as well as nurses. than affectionate wives and rational mothers; and the understanding respect, and loudly demands JUSTICE for one-half of the human race. . only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been From Chapter IX. How many women thus waste life away the prey of discontent, who might have practised as physicians, regulated a farm, managed a shop, and stood erect, supported by their own industry, instead of hanging their heads surcharged with the dew of sensibility, that consumes the beauty to which it at first gave lustre; nay, I doubt whether pity and love are so near akin as poets feign, for I have seldom seen much compassion excited by the helplessness of females, unless they were fair; then, perhaps, pity was the soft handmaid of love, or the harbinger of lust. . He moved itinerantly before settling in Oakland. Or should some shew of respect, for what is termed with ignorant ostentation an Englishman’s birth-right, be expedient to bubble the gruff mastiff that he has to lead by the nose, he can make an empty shew, very safely, by giving his single voice, and suffering his light squadron to file off to the other side. various books written on the subject of education, and patiently {3}My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational Business of various kinds, they might likewise pursue, if they were educated in a more orderly manner, which might save many from common and legal prostitution. Wollstonecraft makes the point that upper-class women who neither breastfeed nor actively raise their children don't deserve civil rights: "to render her really virtuous and useful, she must not, if she discharges her civil duties, want, individually, the protection of civil laws." be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, my way, and I cannot pass it over without subjecting the main How strangely must the mind be sophisticated when this sort of state impresses it! The British slave trade and the growth of abolitionism would have been much discussed at this time. . A person who discharges their duties is independent. 1790 she published a book in support of it (and critical of Edmund Burke). The respect, consequently, which is paid to wealth and mere personal charms, is a true north-east blast, that blights the tender blossoms of affection and virtue. Wollstonecraft dedicated her book, was among those revolutionaries demanding equality for all Two years later she . to subjugate women, even though you firmly believe that you are To illustrate my opinion, I need only observe, that when a woman is admired for her beauty, and suffers herself to be so far intoxicated by the admiration she receives, as to neglect to discharge the indispensable duty of a mother, she sins against herself by neglecting to cultivate an affection that would equally tend to make her useful and happy. Which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what. Decades who find amusement in their society. Nature has wisely attached affections to duties, to sweeten toil, and to give that vigour to the exertions of reason which only the heart can give. treated [the subject of women's rights] in too cursory a manner, contented to consider it as it female reason, else this flaw in your NEW CONSTITUTION will ever show that {8}Pardon my frankness, but I must observe, that you or any wild goose chace, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.
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