BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260606T103744Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20170804T103000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20170804T120000 SUMMARY:Two Early Modern Models of Thought on Women’s Minds and Education UID:20260611T230230Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Australia/Melbourne LOCATION:Monash University\, Clayton\, Australia\, 3800 DESCRIPTION:

In this paper\, I examine two early modern women&rsquo\;s approach to women\, their minds and education\, and their self-knowledge. Mary Astell is a seventeenth-century thinker who grounds many of her claims in theological commitments. Emilie Du Châ\;telet is an eighteenth century thinkers whose theological commitments are considerably weaker\, and as a consequence\, her approach to the nest of topics identified is notably divergent from Astell&rsquo\;s. In particular\, Du Châ\;telet&rsquo\;s disengaging her thoughts on these subjects from a strong theological underpinning opens up for her possibilities for greater activism against social norms that are detrimental to women and their happiness\, even while Astell&rsquo\;s approach allows her to claim greater certainty in the belief that women and men are naturally equal\, and thus deserve equal educational goods.

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