Feminist thinkers

Feb 10, 2021

Feminists # Feminism rose to address the marginalisation and suppression of women throughout history. Most histories have been written by men who have been androcentric, some anti-feminist, and some slightly weirdly misogynist. Most religions are unashamedly patriarchal. Mary Wollstonecraft, # In A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Wollstonecraft was responding to the English con­servative and opponent of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke, who had written in his Reflections on the Revolution in France that ‘a woman is but an animal, and an animal not of the highest order. ...