Ch 3 - Vindication - Wollstonecraft

Full Video Series at https://bit.ly/craftlit-vindication

Mary Wollstonecraft goes off on Rousseau, hoisting him with his own Petard, as it were.*

00:00 Opening
00:57 I Have Notes
06:26 CHAPTER 3
06:44 Introduction to Bodily Strength and Gender
07:34 Misconceptions About Genius and Health
10:21 The Superiority Debate: Men vs. Women
11:43 ROUSSEAU Footnote: Why Women Can't ________
17:38 Education and Female Virtue
19:01 EXTENSIVE   FOOTNOTE from Mr. Day's "Sandford and Merton", Vol III
22:30  Critique of Rousseau's Views on Women
27:11 ROUSSEAU Quote re Girls & Dolls & Coquettes
30:39 ROUSSEAU Footnote on Girl Writing the Letter "O"
36:30 The Consequences of Female Subjugation
38:05 The Call for Rational Education
40:51 The Corruption of Power and Female Dignity
41:24 Revolutionizing Female Manners
44:55 The Nature of Worship and Rational Conduct
47:20 The Role of Women in Society
51:53 The Consequences of Dependence
54:36 ROUSSEAU Footnote: Men Have All The Good Qualities (sorry ladies!)
01:02:06 ROUSSEAU Footnote - "How Lovely is Her Ignorance"
01:07:13 Summing Up: The Call for Rational Virtues
01:10:53 Outro

• Xiran Jay Zhao, Author of "Iron Widow" has an amazing Channel chock full of things you never knew you needed to learn—but you do.    / @xiranjayzhao  
• If you've never read Anne Brontë, please take a listen to CraftLit's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" (starts with episode 516—https://bit.ly/craftlit-tenant). She's the most shocking, most modern, and arguably the best of the Brontë writers. You likely missed her b/c Charlotte didn't like this book's 'sensibilities' and did what she could to ghost it after Anne's death. Bad Charlotte!

*The phrase's meaning is that a bomb-maker is blown ("hoist", the past tense of "hoise") off the ground by his own bomb ("petard"), and indicates an ironic reversal or poetic justice. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist_with_his_own_petard&v=99b19YrdPOw]