Hi, everyone!
Let me continue about Mary Wollstonecraft.
When I was educated at schools, there were no teachers telling us about Rousseau's insulting thoughts against women. ( he wrote 'women were created to please men')
On the contrary, teachers themselves told us many insulting remarks without shame.
Come to think about it now, they were also ordinary people, but at that time I couldn't accept them.
But I'd like to value my sense of reject against anything that might cause anxiety or stress for me.
There may be many nameless Wollstonecraft-like women on the history.
It is fun for me to learn their thoughts and life.
So, good bye, and see you!
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Dear Cherry,
I am very sorry to hear that you were incredibly stressed out many times by your school teachers’ terribly sexist comments about women. Millions of women suffered from these senseless and thoughtless opinions. Thus now we have women’s studies, and we can look back at our history and think about ourselves, and we can get not only more wise and clever but also more powerful and energetic. We shouldn’t be deceived by common sense or general information. Sometimes we have to fight and do whatever we can do to change social ideology.
I hope you get strong and eager to learn about feminism.
Lots of love,
Plum
Hello, my friends.
Are you beating summer fatigue in these scorching and blazing days? If you feel natsubate, it is best to take B vitamins and vegetables such as tomato, eggplant and cucumber. They contain antioxidants which help protect against ultra-violate light. We lost lots of minerals due to perspiration so take watermelon and pears that are rich in minerals. Actually soba, pork, soybeans have B vitamin.
I have a sore throat so I should be careful about my health.
Cherry, and Cosmos, the paper of "CASTRATION" is freely available if you access to MSN hotmail. I sent an e-mail to NWSG with a file attachment.
Today I watched a video of “Fudeko Ishi” in a NHK special document titled “History was made at this time”, “Sonotoki-rekishiga-ugoita”. This is my second time but I was deeply moved when Fudeko aged 76 had decided to continue to run Takinogawa Gakuen in spite of her adverse condition. After the death of her husband, she lost everything. However, she struggled to maintain the school. She had a debt to pay more than 200 million yen and what is more worse, she was paralyzed due to a stroke. But she invested all her wealth to keep school. Thanks of her desperate dedication, the school continued to exist. She was an amazing Meiji woman.
Good-night
Hi, everybody.
We had a lot of rain this early morning. So we feel a little comfortable freeing from scorching heat.
Well, I am surprised a little bit to read the Cherry’s comment about insulting remarks of some teachers. Luckily I had never encountered with such kind of teachers through my school life. I got public education from elementary school to university. I didn’t have any education in private school. I wonder some private schools have special traditions of the school. Almost teachers of us treated girls equally as well as boys. The class teacher of the third grade in senior high school even encouraged to go universities not junior colleges. He persuaded us that girls should choose courses of the same level of boys. I have never had stupid remarks about regarding girls as inferior. At home, my mother was far from obedient wife, who always argued with her husband. We children were fed up their daily quarrel words. But I think they were very nice couple, who worked together well to get over difficulties since the end of the War. After I married, I found my mother-in law took the initiative as a decision maker at home. In a sense, she was a God mother. Two of my sisters have reigned over their families. So actually I have not been aware of discrimination against women. But I know there is lots of discrimination against women in a society. I remember the words of the class teacher, “ Learn a lot and enlarge your stock of knowledge, which help you open your mind to the world. Not to become simple victims. Taking a broad view of things would prevent you from falling into to trap.”
Hi, Cherry, Alice, Magnolia and Sunflower.
I am pleased to hear that you now know something about MW, who is a very important thinker in late 18th century England.
Then, I would like you to know something about Harriet Taylor. Please copy and paste the following and get an article about her.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wtaylor.htm
The English in the article is not difficult, and it is quite easy to understand what she was and what she did. Also there are a couple of quotations from The Subjection of Women (1869) by JSM, and they are significant in feminist studies and well-known among feminist scholars in English speaking countries.
JSM is a philosopher in mid-19th century England and one of his works is On Liberty, which was translated into Japanese in the Meiji period (1868-1912) and the translation influenced and moved a great number of Japanese “elites and intellectuals” who were doing Western studies. I really do not know whether these people were real elites or intellectuals, but these are how they were called.
I just give you some information about On Liberty from Wikipedia
On Liberty is a philosophical work in the English language by 19th century philosopher John Stuart Mill, first published in 1859. To the Victorian readers of the time it was a radical work, advocating moral and economic freedom of individuals from the state.
I especially hope you enjoy reading the quotations, since I did tremendously, which was more than ten years ago, when I was doing 19th century English literature at Auckland Uni. Grad. School.
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