Millenium hall : Sarah Scott's valuable contribution to the proto-feminist discourse

• Main Author: Lee, June Qian Ying
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/59301
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

It was certainly not easy to be a woman in eighteenth-century England. Women were “disadvantaged because they were born into an overtly patriarchal society”, where men had “political and social dominance. . .over women and children” (Eales 4). Patriarchy considers women to be both physically and men...