Women and Modernity
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Women and Modernity
Rights, education, imagination, and social formation in texts by and about women.
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Step 1 · Still to readDeclaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen
De Gouges asks the revolution its simplest question: do rights truly apply to everyone?
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Step 2 · Still to readA Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Wollstonecraft makes equality a question of education, reason, and independence.
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Step 3 · Still to readPride and Prejudice
Austen explores how judgment, marriage, and money govern ordinary life.
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Step 4 · Still to readFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Shelley asks what creation means when care and responsibility are missing.
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Step 6 · Still to readMiddlemarch
Eliot shows how ideals collide with marriage, money, vocation, and community.
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Step 7 · Still to readRevelations of Divine Love
Julian of Norwich adds an older voice: women's theology as consolation and vision.
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Step 8 · Still to readThe Age of Innocence
Wharton closes with the cost of social control in a supposedly refined world.