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Women During The Enlightenment

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As you can see, many important things happened around and during the time of the enlightenment. Important dates in history like the American Revolution and the French revolution happened during this time. This timeline includes important dates of published writing that influenced the enlightenment and talked about the important happenings during this time. The Enlightenment endorsed and supported reason as a way to establish an authoritative system of knowledge, ethics, government, and even religion, which would allow people to obtain scientific truth about the whole of reality. Consumed by the revolution in physics started by Newtonian kinematics, Enlightenment thinkers argued that reason and understanding could free human kind from superstition …show more content…

Which is the role of the woman. Women are kind of pushed to the back burner when it comes to discussing the Enlightenment and the important events. Western Civilization Guide says it best when talking about woman during the Enlightenment, “The Enlightenment era was often viewed as the founder of individualism and rationality. Women at that time often challenge those ideas and started questioning their roles in society.” The enlightenment brought forth a feeling of wanting to do things on you own, without someone barking down your back by telling you how to live your life. Men were not the only ones feeling this way. This movement is what kick started woman into wanting to be independent and their own person. Woman did many different things to start showing their right to be individuals and make their own rational …show more content…

They were very involved in the pro-longing of the movement and they also became celebrated authors and publishers by opening their homes and businesses to many writers. Much of the activity of the philosophies of people such as Isaac Newton were mainly sponsored by women and women’s communities. They had a large amount of influence over the happenings and events of the enlightenment movement. Like I mentioned before, the Salons that men would gather in were ran by women. These environments such as Salons, Masonries, and Coffee Houses, became used and primarily ran by woman. The women opening up these locations also made it so that the people had a safe place to come and relax with each other. An important character of the time, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a female philosopher who had heavy influence during the era of the Enlightenment. She and many other women wrote and published works that were read an applauded by

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