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Things wot I am reading:

Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France by Lucy Moore. What I find really fascinating is that this really brilliant woman, Germaine de Stael, clever, witty, talented, was also against women's rights. And she wasn't the only one of these women to be against women's rights! it's a really odd dichotomy. apparently it's partly because of Rousseau, who was popular? and part of the argument against the old Regime was that it had let women gain positions of power (even though this wasn't really true - women gained an illusion of power, but they had almost no real control, and to gain it they had to sacrifice their reputations). so yeah, I find that strange.

Date: 2009-11-02 03:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fadedelegance.livejournal.com
Frankly, I think women like that are brainwashed because they grew up in a misogynistic environment and were conditioned not to think for themselves and to believe that women really should have an inferior status.

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