Wollstonecraft 60%: Domination

How exactly do men dominate women?

First: Denial of civil and political rights

Second: Sexist social practices and norms. e.g. “naturalness”, lack of independence, ‘self-censorship’

Expand on civil and political rights domination (on property)

Lacking property + means of being independent renders women dependent on marriage.

Expand on civil and political rights domination (on freedom)

Without freedom, there cannot be virtue

Expand on civil and political rights domination (on citizenry)

Republicans insist on contestatory ctizenry to protect against domination. However, women do not have political representation.

Expand on sexist social practices and norms

• Women’s roles in being beautiful for men (being submissive)

• Exclusion of women from professions

• Kind of education fitting for girls

Consequences of these norms

Make women’s subjection to men seem natural - easier to justify. But really, this is the result of social conditioning.

Women, being fragile, will be obliged to look up to man for every comfort. Men then seem to be natural protectors.

Expand on the effect of profession limitation

• Political avenues are blocked (no representation)

• Men develop virtues from seeking to enter professions, but women do not

Expand on self-censoring

Women generally fail to contest subjection to men

Made to have an interest in being deferential to husbands to conform to the norms, entrenching those norms further

Internalising such norms then makes it unconsciously normal