FOR ACTUAL TEXT of Mary Wollstonecraft's *A Vindication of the Rights of Woman* USE CLOSED CAPTIONS—Links to discussed topics can be found below the timecodes.

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FULL SERIES: bit.ly/craftlit-vindication

00:00 Intro notes

01:56 Understanding MW's Annotations

05:02 Note 1 on Islam - PBS LINK: https://to.pbs.org/49mmu6H

05:44 Sura Ghafir 40:40

06:17 Note on Islam 2

07:03 Define: Providence

08:00 Notes on Genesis and Creation

10:07 Definition: Sensual

11:01 Virtue and Mortality in MWs View

12:22 Define: Positive

14:23 CHAPTER TWO TEXT: A Vindication on the Rights of Woman

14:30 The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed

16:07 Women's Education and Virtue

18:09 Critique of Rousseau and Other Authors

28:16 The Superficial Knowledge of Women and Soldiers

31:51 The Impact of Standing Armies

34:57 The Tyranny of Sensualists

35:32 Rousseau's Unnatural Sophia

42:28 Post-chapter Footnotes

*Links for you*

• Muhammad and Women | PBS

Not Discussed Today, But Useful Now & In Future Episodes

• William Godwin's Memoir of his wife's life, written within a year after her death from Placental Sepsis after giving birth to her second daughter Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (Shelley)
• Mary Wollstonecraft's death: Link below
• Who was Rousseau?

Full-Text Links

• Full-text of Vindication: bit.ly/craftlit-vindication-text
• Full-text of Paradise Lost: bit.ly/craftlit-milton
• Full-text of Èmile: bit.ly/craftlit-Emile

More links and info on MW's death can be found at the end of this post.

Not Wollstonecraft, but also good to know... Bot Army—Irksome Humans May Not Be Human My response:

Ages ago, there was a Twitter bot that you could forward a tweet to and get a reading of a % chance whether or not the tweet came from a bot. I used it all the time—and calmed down A LOT. Then it disappeared.

Does anyone else remember using something like that?

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MW's Death Trigger Warning: Women's Healthcare—Placental sepsis

Placental sepsis led to the death of Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797 after she gave birth to her daughter Mary Godwin. It is now more commonly known as puerperal sepsis or postpartum sepsis. This condition is an infection that occurs after childbirth. In the past, it was a major cause of maternal deaths related to childbirth, especially before modern hygiene practices and antibiotics became available.

Global Situation Today:

- Maternal sepsis remains a serious issue and is still a significant cause of maternal deaths around the world.

- The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that maternal sepsis accounts for about 10% of all maternal deaths globally. It tends to be more common in areas where many births happen at home, there are not enough skilled healthcare workers, and healthcare systems are weak.

Historical Background:

During Wollstonecraft's time, doctors often worked in unhygienic environments and did not yet understand germs. Consequently, infections after childbirth were sadly common and often turned deadly.

- Peer Reviewed Journal Articles on Placental Sepsis: Cambridge: https://bit.ly/4f3Absz; AIMDR: https://bit.ly/4gicca2; Incidences of: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6903710/

-Trigger Warning: Details on MW's death: bit.ly/craftlit-MWs-death