As epigraph she quoted a statement from the seventeenth-century male Cartesian feminist François Poulain or Poullain de la Barre
, pointing out that men are not qualified judges of women, since they are interested parties...
Timeline
1673
François Poulain (or Poullain) de la Barre
published at Paris his Cartesian treatise on gender equality, De l'égalité des deux sexes, which was translated into English four years later.
1677
Someone called A. L. translated François Poulain de la Barre
into English as The Woman as Good as the Man; Or, the Equality of Both Sexes.
1721
Charles de Montesquieu
published Lettres Persanes, which purport to be letters home from a Persian visiting Paris.
November 1739
The anonymous, probably female Sophia
published a pamphlet entitled Woman not Inferior to Man.
1758
An anonymous Lady published Female Rights Vindicated: or The Equality of the Sexes Morally and Physically Proved, a vigorous plea that society should educate women equally with men and offer them a share in...
