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This is a teeny-tiny detail, but it really bothered me - when she's talking about how women should be educated because they educate their children (bottom of the second page), she says the matron educates her "daughter," but also "that mind which is to inform the future man." I don't really know how to interpret this - men are identified with their minds and women aren't? Daughters are just daughters, but sons aren't sons, they're "future men"? It seemed like such messy phrasing, I want to know what it was supposed to be getting at. -- Katie C. | This is a teeny-tiny detail, but it really bothered me - when she's talking about how women should be educated because they educate their children (bottom of the second page), she says the matron educates her "daughter," but also "that mind which is to inform the future man." I don't really know how to interpret this - men are identified with their minds and women aren't? Daughters are just daughters, but sons aren't sons, they're "future men"? It seemed like such messy phrasing, I want to know what it was supposed to be getting at. -- Katie C. | ||
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| + | It was so interesting to see a women writing as though from a man's point of view. I think it would have been interesting to read this not knowing a woman was writing it. I think we all would have been amazed that a man was truly so supportive of women's education, in more ways that just for the purpose of "republican motherhood." The fact that Murray had to write under a man's name speaks volumes about the mind set of people of the time. Had she written as a woman, people would have written the piece off as a radial and not worth reading. But since she wrote as a man, while the piece may have been radical, it was a though provoking subject that was probably deemed worthy of discussion-- Grace Christenson | ||
== SUSANNA HASWELL ROWSON, Charlotte: A Tale of Truth, 1794 == | == SUSANNA HASWELL ROWSON, Charlotte: A Tale of Truth, 1794 == | ||
