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Early defenders of women’s intellectual rights: Wollstonecraft’s and Rokeya’s strategies to promote female education

Given that social constructions and deeply embedded cultural misapprehensions about gender, together with conventional views of female intellectual ability, denied women entry into institutional education, Wollstonecraft and Rokeya mounted a literary campaign to promote female education in their res...

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Main Author: Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
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Language:English
English
Published: Routledge 2018
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HQ1101 Women. Feminism
PE English
PI Oriental languages and literatures
PN0441 Literary History
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spelling my.iium.irep.672992018-11-08T03:00:20Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/67299/ Early defenders of women’s intellectual rights: Wollstonecraft’s and Rokeya’s strategies to promote female education Hasan, Md. Mahmudul HQ1101 Women. Feminism PE English PI Oriental languages and literatures PN0441 Literary History Given that social constructions and deeply embedded cultural misapprehensions about gender, together with conventional views of female intellectual ability, denied women entry into institutional education, Wollstonecraft and Rokeya mounted a literary campaign to promote female education in their respective societies. They argued that female education would not only advance the cause of women, it would also be conducive to the interests ofmen as well as the wider society. Given these cultural backgrounds, this article examines the traditional notion of gendered intellect within their respective cultural contexts, discusses their arguments against cultural mythologies of women’s cerebral capabilities, and makes an in-depth analysis of their strategies for, and philosophy of, female education. It analyses social restrictions on women’s education and pits them against Rokeya’s and Wollstonecraft’s ideas that envisage equal educational opportunities for both genders. Routledge 2018-10-08 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/67299/1/67229_Early%20defenders%20of%20women%E2%80%99s%20intellectual%20rights.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/67299/2/67229_Early%20defenders%20of%20women%E2%80%99s%20intellectual%20rights_SCOPUS%20in%20press.pdf Hasan, Md. Mahmudul (2018) Early defenders of women’s intellectual rights: Wollstonecraft’s and Rokeya’s strategies to promote female education. Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education. pp. 1-17. ISSN 0030-9230 (In Press) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00309230.2018.1515235?scroll=top&needAccess=true 10.1080/00309230.2018.1515235
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PE English
PI Oriental languages and literatures
PN0441 Literary History
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PE English
PI Oriental languages and literatures
PN0441 Literary History
Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
Early defenders of women’s intellectual rights: Wollstonecraft’s and Rokeya’s strategies to promote female education
description Given that social constructions and deeply embedded cultural misapprehensions about gender, together with conventional views of female intellectual ability, denied women entry into institutional education, Wollstonecraft and Rokeya mounted a literary campaign to promote female education in their respective societies. They argued that female education would not only advance the cause of women, it would also be conducive to the interests ofmen as well as the wider society. Given these cultural backgrounds, this article examines the traditional notion of gendered intellect within their respective cultural contexts, discusses their arguments against cultural mythologies of women’s cerebral capabilities, and makes an in-depth analysis of their strategies for, and philosophy of, female education. It analyses social restrictions on women’s education and pits them against Rokeya’s and Wollstonecraft’s ideas that envisage equal educational opportunities for both genders.
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title_short Early defenders of women’s intellectual rights: Wollstonecraft’s and Rokeya’s strategies to promote female education
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