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A 6 page paper which examines how the feminist movement as an idea of radical change is represented in these works, including the concepts of female education, primogeniture, and equal rights. No additional sources are used.
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conflict or clashing political ideologies. Existing value systems were coming under intense scrutiny as a result of new intellectual and philosophical ideas that were truly revolutionary. England was
historically a class-oriented patriarchy in which everything and everyone was expected to be in its place. Men were leaders, and women were expected to passively follow in a stand
by your man tradition. But a new generation of women wasnt quite so eager to accept the passive roles of their predecessors. Mary Wollstonecraft, whose intellect was equal
or superior to that of any man, began to question Rousseau and his philosophical contemporaries not for their radical ideas, many of which she agreed with but for the blatant
exclusion of women from them. Her scathing attack on the patriarchy and its disservice of women, A Vindication on the Rights of Woman, was published in 1792, and is
believed to be the first feminist treatise. Jane Austen may have taken a bit more conventional path than Wollstonecraft, but with revolution also defining the nineteenth century in the
form of Englands Napoleonic Wars with France, this Tory conservative also recognized the need for social reform, particularly in regards to the treatment of women. Her novel, Sense and
Sensibility considers the social position of the early nineteenth-century woman, and through characterization, Austen takes a feminist position. Both texts advocate ideas associated with radical change, and include female
education, womens rights, and primogeniture. Mary Wollstonecraft fervently believed that liberal thought should embrace female as well as male attitudes since society included both sexes. She maintained that
the views of all needed to be closely examined before any rational conclusions could be drawn. Wollstonecraft contended that the reason women had been excluded from society and deemed
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