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...panelists, all bringing very different backgrounds and approaches to the topic, were writer Betty Friedan, psychoanalyst and author Juliet Mitchell, University of Wisconsin history professor Gerda Lerner and Williams College political science professor Dessima Williams...
...Lerner, the first panelist to speak, gave a historical perspective on Wollstonecraft as a feminist thinker...
...Lerner contrasted Wollstonecraft to her feminist predecessors in the 17th century, arguing that her major innovation was the inclusion of poor, single and middle class women into John Locke's framework of human rights...
Following Lerner, Mitchell contrasted Wollstonecraft's Vindication to her fiction. While Vindication was an optimistic work, she said, it was later dwarfed by Wollstonecraft's more pessimistic novels, which revealed her views on the inequality between men and women...
Vindicating the Rights of Women--Panelists: writer Betty Friedan, historian Gerda Lerner, cultural critic Bell Hooks, psychoanalist Juliet Mitchell. Discussants: Carol Gilligan of the Graduate School of Education and Bina Agarwal, of Women's Studies, Harvard, and Economics, University of Delhi. Historical introduction by Susan Pederson, of the Harvard Department of History. Moderated by Ellen Fitzpatrick, of the Department of History, Harvard. Agassiz Theatre, 10 Garden St. Call 495-9199 for information...