Education
Throughout history women have not been given equal access to education compared to their male peers. The theme of education and the access to eduation is important to both the stories of the authors in our anthology and also in the stories they write. For example, as a class we have been able to discuss the theme of education through the historical figure Phillis Wheatley, who lived from 1753-1784 and was the first African American to publish a book in the United States. She is example of a person who had the privelege of education but was also held down by the intersections of racism, patriarchal gender roles, and for part of her life, enslavement. In this anthology, this theme of education will be based an authors access to education (like the case of Phillis Wheatley) or lack of access AND themes of education in which an author include in their text.
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author’s access to education or not(Wheatley) (Craik) (Winnemucca)
themes of education in the text (Wollstonecraft) (Winnemucca)
Broadly, this tag relates the concept of education to selections and their authors. The privilege of education for these writers is considered.
Excerpt for Phillis found in An enquiry concerning the intellectual and moral faculties, and the literature of Negroes