Greater Learning For Women Summary

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The Enlightenment was a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. The sections show this by being very different from each other.
In Greater Learning For Women, by Kaibara Ekken, it shows a very traditional view. Ekkens writes about women obeying and loving thy husband completely and without question. Waking up first and going to sleep last, never tiring of sewing, weaving, and spinning. She must fear and obey her husband forever.Ekkens basically wrote women out to be slaves. Wanting them to remain oppressed and have little to know rights or justice.
In The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, by Olympe de Gouges, one of the first women's rights activists