How did Enlightenment thinkers promote or revise traditional views of women and gender? What role did women have in this process?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Women as patrons through the salons
2. Enlightenment objections to limited educational opportunities for women through religious institutions
3. How Montesquieu and the editors of the Encyclopedia promoted traditional views of marriage and chastity
4. Rousseau's ideas of separate spheres and subordination of women
5. Mary Wollstonecraft's opposition to Rousseau and call for liberty
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a. true b. false
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