Female Education

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Female Education
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18th Century Female Education

• Housekeeping
• Sewing
• Music
• Watercolors
• Dancing
• Deportment

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Dancing Sewing
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Womanly Pursuits

• Acceptable literature
• Fashion magazines
• Romances
• Fluff

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Rousseau

• Sophie
• "The education of women should always be relative
  to that of men. To please, to be useful to us, to
  make us love and esteem them, to educate us when
  young, to take care of us when grown up, to
  advise, to console us, to render our lives easy
  and agreeable these are the duties of women at
  all times, and what they should be taught in
  their infancy."

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Mary Wollstonecraft

• Reaction to Rousseau
• Did not work in real life
• Errors
• Wiser mothers
• Intellectual Equality

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Daniel Defoe

• 1660-1731
• I have often thought of it as one of the most
  barbarous customs in the world, considering us as
  a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny
  the advantages of learning to women.

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Robbing of Education

• Soft and easy
• Impertinent
• turbulent, clamorous, noisy, nasty, the devil

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Defoe promoting?
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Slave Trade
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Background

• Portugal Spain since 1400s
• Britain since 1660
• Middle Passage

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Middle Passage Map

• 30-90 days, 3700 miles
• Triangle Trade route
• Textiles/Manufactured
• Rum/Sugar/Molasses
• Gold/Slaves
• Loose vs. tight packers

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Slaves Voyage
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Revolt Punishment
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Effects

• Two sides
• Good for slaves
• Demeaning for humans
• 1807 William Wilberforce