Ethics & Mary Wollstonecraft & W.E.B. DuBois
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When Wollstonecraft (1732) argues that ôàan unhappy marriage is often very advantageous to a family,ö she is talking about how an unhappy woman is often more motivated to develop her mind and form her own opinions that a happily married one, at least in the view of happily married in her era. Wollstonecraft argues that when a woman is unhappily married she has a better chance of becoming more than just her husbandÆs toy or plaything. Instead, she has a chance of developing into an individual in her own right, in order to become a ôfriendö to her husband as opposed to just a being that exists for his pleasure and desires. Friendship between man and wife is even rarer than true love in WollstonecraftÆs view. Such a wife will also be in a better position to act as a role model for her daughters by demonstrating the abilities of women. Wollstonecraft makes many analogies to women in her work. She considered them like slaves: ôMany are the causes that, in the present corrupt state of society, contribute to enslave women by cramping their understandings and sharpening their sensesö (Wollstonecraft, 1732). She also compares them to obedient soldiers: ôLike the fair sex, the business of their lives is gallantryùThey were taught to please, and they only live to pleaseö (Wollstonecraft, 1732). She also refers to them as either moral beings or weaklings compared to men: ôWomen are, therefore, to be considered either as moral beings, or so weak that th
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oppression is not legitimate institutional policy but exists beneath the service as an unwritten policy. For example, the way he discusses how blacks are encouraged to stay away from higher educational opportunities by those responsible for admitting people to college. Such systematic oppression is difficult to eliminate from society, since in both of these authorsÆ eras, the institutions, like today, are operated by the most powerful and wealthy segments of society.
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There are many issues Wollstonecraft addresses that are still relevant today. For example, the need for greater educational and work opportunities for women represents two issues that are still relevant. Males still dominate women in terms of numbers and higher salaries with respect to leadership positions in business. Men still outnumber females in colleges and universities, and minority women lag even further behind. Another issue that is still relevant is WollstonecraftÆs discussion of how institutions like the church are often complicit in keeping women oppression and positing males in a superior position. The Creation mythology of the Catholic Church still maintains that woman was created of man and for his pleasure. Until such dogma and instituti
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