French Revolution (Q2)

Question 1

French Revolution

Answer 1

• 1789, Storming of Bastille
• 1792, monarchy gone
• 1793-94, reign of terror
• 1799, Nap

Question 2

Olympe de Gouges

Answer 2

• 18th-century feminist writer
• Abolitionist and advocates for minorities
• Gets killed for being seen as siding with the anti-revs

Question 3

OG Justice and Moderation

Answer 3

• Wanted a middle-ground Constitutional monarchy
• The monarch as a figurehead

Question 4

Declaration on the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen

Answer 4

• Mirrors Declaration on the Rights of Man (central doc of Fr Rev)

Question 5

Dec Preamble

Answer 5

• Doesn’t explain why women are equal, operates on assumption they are

Question 6

Dec Article 6

Answer 6

• Advocates for employment and the right to hold political office
• Not voting cause democracy isn’t a thing yet really

Question 7

Dec Article 10

Answer 7

• Women should have equal right to speak in public and defen selves in court
• Subject t law and can be held accountable

Question 8

Dec Postamble

Answer 8

• Uses language of tyranny and slavery
• Treatment of women is worse than slaves
• Issue of inheritance and marriage

Question 9

OG Women Worse off then Slaves

Answer 9

• Emancipation doesn’t work for women
• She is only secure through marriage unless exceptionally beautiful or talented

Question 10

OG Issues of Inheritance

Answer 10

• Women can’t inherit which means no wealth

Question 11

OG Marriage Issues

Answer 11

• Once married you are no longer equal to your spouse
• Due to becoming legally a man’s property

Question 12

Mary Wollstonecraft

Answer 12

• Late 18th century from the UK but moves to Paris
• Had an abusive father which shaped her beliefs as a poli philosopher

Question 13

MW Critique of Patirarchy

Answer 13

• Form of tyranny
• Monarchic oppression

Question 14

MW Equality

Answer 14

• Comes from her upbringing
• She wants equality

Question 15

MW and Burke

Answer 15

• Disagrees with his argument that poli stability comes from tradition and inheritance

Question 16

MW and Rousseau

Answer 16

• Generally disagrees with him especially on his educational policies
• Also argues society has gone back from the SoN

Question 17

Vindication Of Rights of Women

Answer 17

• MW, 3 focuses and women are equal
• Criticizes Rousseau a lot
• Europe is shallow and society/monarchies are corrupt
• Gender inequality is tyranny
• Anti-inheritance

Question 18

MW 3 Focuses

Answer 18

• Reason
• Virtue, in the religious sense
• Knowledge, through education

Question 19

MW and SoN

Answer 19

• Believes it was not ideal because we had characteristics that needed cultivating

Question 20

MW and European monarchy/society

Answer 20

• It all corrupt as it’s built around wealth
• Force women to see their roles as being beautiful to get a husband
• Need robust virtue for women to be more

Question 21

MW and Gender Inequality as Tyranny

Answer 21

• Society is preoccupied with the dance of attraction and comes from domination
• Progress is the answer
• Women are conditioned to seek male attention and then they are despotized
• Wealth makes men lazy

Question 22

MW and Locke

Answer 22

• Believes wealth is the problem because soc structure caused laziness
• Crazy cause at the time it was all about Locke

Question 23

Arguments for Tyranny

Answer 23

1. False argument women are inferior
2. Not letting women learn reinforces corruption and inhibits progress
3. Denying liberty denies virtue

Question 24

Women are Inferior, Arg 1

Answer 24

• Women are physically lesser but that’s it
• Uses military men as an example, says they can’t think for themselves

Question 25

Women and Education, Arg 2

Answer 25

• Women and men being caught in dance of attraction is not following 3 rules
• Women being uneducated inhibits progress and liberal democracy
• Emile

Question 26

MW and Emile

Answer 26

• Rousseau wrote Emile as a perfect education for a boy
• The boy marries and the wife is to keep him in check
• MW doesn’t like idea that women are there to compliment men and have different virtues

Question 27

Denying Liberty Denies Virtue

Answer 27

• How can we deny virtue is a Christian society
• If women only think in the now they only think about immediate desires, bad soc

Question 28

Marriage, Equality, and Financial Independence

Answer 28

• Women should be elected and have financial independence
• Reconceptualize beauty as that of the mind

Question 29

MW and Education

Answer 29

• Believes it should be co-ed and continue for girls and boys the same

Question 30

De Gouges and Wollstoneraft

Answer 30

• Language of tyranny
• Both emphasize education
• Marriage and property arguments