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Judith Sargent Murray was an American writer who wrote the poem and essay "On the Equality of the Sexes" under the pseudonym Constantia in 1790. In the work, Murray questions the subservience of women to men and argues that the lack of education for women leads to inequality in reason and judgment between the sexes. The themes of the work include women's issues, gender roles, and the inequality created by denying women access to education and literature.
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Murray's equality of sexes
- 1. Judith Sargent Murray 1751-1820 Lee Ann Davis
- 2. On the Equality of the Sexes Both a poem and an essay written under one ofMurray’smany pseudonyms, Constantia Reportedly drafted in 1779, Murray radically questions women’s subservience to men, emphasizing inequality in reason and judgment as a result of difference in education Published in the Massachusetts Magazine April and May 1790
- 3. Themes Genre Women’s Issues/Gender Roles Poetry Essay Periodical Humor/Wit Pseudonymity Inequality - Education/literacy - Literary
- 4. “At length arrived at womanhood, the uncultivated fair one feels a void, which the employments allotted her are by no means capable of filling. What can she do? To books she may not apply; or if she doth, to those only of the novel kind, lest she merit the appellation of a learned lady; and what ideas have been affixed to this term, the observation of many can testify.” p. 1255
- 5. “Should it still be vociferated, ‘Your domestick employments are sufficient’ – I would calmly ask, is it reasonable, that a candidate for immorality, for the joys of heaven, an intelligent being, who is to spend an eternity in contemplating the works of Diety, should at present be so degraded, as to be allowed no other ideas, than those which are suggested by the mechanism of a pudding, or the sewing of the seams of a garment? Pity that all such censurers of female improvement do not go one step further, and deny their future existence; to be so consistent they surely ought.” p. 1256
- 6. “Strange how blind self love renders you men; were you not wholly absorbed in a partial admiration of your own abilities, you would long since have acknowledged the force of what I am now going to urge.” p. 1258
- 7. Related Authors/Texts Benjamin Franklin’s “The Speech of Polly Baker” Abigail Adams’s letters to her husband Letter from Cherokee Indian Women, to Benjamin Franklin, Governor of the State of Pennsylvania – Katteuha