Module 8 - Part 3: Texts and Contexts

Other parts of this module include:
Index  |  Part 1: Overview  |  Part 2: Explorations and Exercises  |  Part 4: Web Resources

Women and Learning in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Hombres necio s, in which she demonstrates the folly of men in their accusations against women.
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Hannah More, The Bas Bleu .
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Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman , Chapter IX: Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society.
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"I scratch my head," by Wang Yun (c. 1757-1802?), as reprinted in the article by Paul S. Ropp cited in full under Web Resources.
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