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Mary Wollstonecraft goes off on Rousseau, hoisting him with his own Petard, as it were.*

00:00 Opening

00:57 I Have Notes

06:26 CHAPTER 3

06:44 Introduction to Bodily Strength and Gender

07:34 Misconceptions About Genius and Health

10:21 The Superiority Debate: Men vs. Women

11:43 ROUSSEAU Footnote: Why Women Can't ________

17:38 Education and Female Virtue

19:01 EXTENSIVE FOOTNOTE from Mr. Day's "Sandford and Merton", Vol III

22:30 Critique of Rousseau's Views on Women

27:11 ROUSSEAU Quote re Girls & Dolls & Coquettes

30:39 ROUSSEAU Footnote on Girl Writing the Letter "O"

36:30 The Consequences of Female Subjugation

38:05 The Call for Rational Education

40:51 The Corruption of Power and Female Dignity

41:24 Revolutionizing Female Manners

44:55 The Nature of Worship and Rational Conduct

47:20 The Role of Women in Society

51:53 The Consequences of Dependence

54:36 ROUSSEAU Footnote: Men Have All The Good Qualities (sorry ladies!)

01:02:06 ROUSSEAU Footnote - "How Lovely is Her Ignorance"

01:07:13 Summing Up: The Call for Rational Virtues

01:10:53 Outro

• Xiran Jay Zhao, Author of "Iron Widow" has an amazing Channel chock full of things you never knew you needed to learn—but you do. / @xiranjayzhao • If you've never read Anne Brontë, please take a listen to CraftLit's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" (starts with episode 516—https://bit.ly/craftlit-tenant). She's the most shocking, most modern, and arguably the best of the Brontë writers. You likely missed her b/c Charlotte didn't like this book's 'sensibilities' and did what she could to ghost it after Anne's death. Bad Charlotte!

*The phrase's meaning is that a bomb-maker is blown ("hoist", the past tense of "hoise") off the ground by his own bomb ("petard"), and indicates an ironic reversal or poetic justice. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist_with_his_own_petard&v=99b19YrdPOw]