Eduquemos a Sofía. La polémica Wollstonecraft-Rousseau y el surgimiento de la filosofía política feminista

The aim of this article is to analyse Mary Wollstonecraft's defence of egalitarian education against Rousseau's proposal of sexual politics. To account for this polemic, we contextualise the debate within the Enlightenment, specifically in the emergence offeminist theory. In the first part of the article, we will analyse the importance of the universalising abstractions that emerged in the Enlightenment in the erosion of the hierarchies that legitimised the inferiority of women in relation to men. The pedagogy proposed by Rousseau, despite being framed within the framework of Enlightenment thought, posed serious difficulties for the claims of equality of the emerging feminist thought. Mary Wollstonecraft, in a veritable exercise in the philosophy of suspicion, will give an account of the ploy used by Rousseau to legitimise the inferiority of women and thus justify Sophia's unequal education

Humanities · Political science · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender and Feminist Studies · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment