Abstract

MADERO CASTRO, Andrea Marina. Debates around education and gender order in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft and Jean Jacques Rousseau: notes on the in/equality of boys and girls. La ventana [online]. 2022, vol.6, n.56, pp.203-232.  Epub Aug 22, 2022. ISSN 1405-9436.

The article proposes to problematize the concepts of equality that Jean Jacques Rousseau (1762) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1792) applied in their reflections on the education of boys and girls. Rousseau's concept of equality is posed as a paradox due to its relativity and exclusion of all women. Therefore, it is understood as a sexually differentiated equality, which is expressed in the also differentiated education for boys and girls, producing, thus, a deeply unequal gender order. To exemplify this hypothesis, Rousseauian arguments, in which the nuances of the author's equality are evident, are analyzed. Finally, some critiques that Mary Wollstonecraft posed to the ideas of the swiss author will be presented. Special attention will be payed to the Wollstonecraft’s educational alternative, which is presented in the face of Rousseau's paradox of equality, in which she opted for an egalitarian vision of the sexes, of upbringing and of education, putting ideas of enlightened feminism of equality into practice, aiming for the production of a new gender order.

Keywords : education; feminism; equality; gender order; enlightenment.

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