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
Format:	Article
Language:	English English
Published:	Routledge 2018
Subjects:	HQ1101 Women. Feminism PE English PI Oriental languages and literatures PN0441 Literary History
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spelling	iium-696992019-07-15T01:42:27Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/69699/ 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/69699/1/Early%20defenders%20of%20women%20s%20intellectual%20rights%20Wollstonecraft%20s%20and%20Rokeya%20s%20strategies%20to%20promote%20female%20education.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/69699/7/69699_Early%20defenders%20of%20women%E2%80%99s%20intellectual%20rights_scopus.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, 54 (6). pp. 766-782. ISSN 0030-9230 E-ISSN 1477-674X https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00309230.2018.1515235?journalCode=cpdh20 10.1080/00309230.2018.1515235
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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	Early defenders of women’s intellectual rights: Wollstonecraft’s and Rokeya’s strategies to promote female education
title_short	Early defenders of women’s intellectual rights: Wollstonecraft’s and Rokeya’s strategies to promote female education
title_full	Early defenders of women’s intellectual rights: Wollstonecraft’s and Rokeya’s strategies to promote female education
title_fullStr	Early defenders of women’s intellectual rights: Wollstonecraft’s and Rokeya’s strategies to promote female education
title_full_unstemmed	Early defenders of women’s intellectual rights: Wollstonecraft’s and Rokeya’s strategies to promote female education
title_sort	early defenders of women’s intellectual rights: wollstonecraft’s and rokeya’s strategies to promote female education
publisher	Routledge
publishDate	2018
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Early defenders of women’s intellectual rights: Wollstonecraft’s and Rokeya’s strategies to promote female education

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