Ch 4 Part 1 - Vindication - Wollstonecraft

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

Mary Wollstonecraft Eats the Rich and Eviscerates the Haters

00:00 Opening
01:07  I Have Notes
03:28 Challenges of Change and Freedom
09:57 Education and Women's Dependency
12:49 Women's Power and Societal Expectations
14:04 Equal Education and Virtue
17:45 Critique of Chivalry and Courtesy
20:38 Conclusion and Upcoming Content
21:35 START of Chapter 4 and Women's Degradation
24:19 The Role of Reason and Rationality
29:04 Cultural and Societal Influences
31:16 The Pursuit of Pleasure and Its Consequences
38:22 The Impact of Education and Social Expectations
43:10 Comparisons with the Rich and Powerful
45:01 Adam Smith Extended Quote Starts Here
53:41 The Call for Equality and Rational Education
55:20 Like Emma's Reading List!
56:38 (I swear, Austen memorized this bit!)
59:50 (Possibly my favorite part of the book to date—HA!)
1:00:50 Tenant of Wildfell Hall parallel
01:06:03 END of Ch 4 Part 1

• 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!

• "Seventy-times-seven" please see Aarne-Thompson 
Tale-Types & Motifs for more: https://guides.library.harvard.edu/folk_and_myth/indices