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Jean Jacques Rousseau Research Paper

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Through the exploration of female experience in society, from the traditional feudal system to the Enlightenment and later to Romanticism; the placement of women within western societies did not display a dramatic change. Despite the progress made in other fields, improvement in the status of women was slow, where medieval views on gender difference continued into the eighteenth century and beyond. The primary debate of the late eighteenth century was one of a woman’s procession of “sense and or sensibility”. Through this essay, I demonstrated how climate of the Enlightenment contributed to the ideas of Jean Jacques Rousseau, specifically his view of women. These views presented in his work, Emile or On Education, portrayed women as inherently
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