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Essay / Feminism in the 19th century Essay - 2234
Women are condemned to resign themselves and become what social institutions based on religion and morality wanted them to be. Society acted as a representation of female origins and the forces that tried to make them obey. The image of woman and her feminine nature demanded and presented by society are very old: her images of mother and wife. More relevant is the alienation if women, to the extent that they accept these images, represent them to themselves and do not intend to change anything. Later, at the beginning of the 19th century, women considered that their intellectual inferiority was created by lack of education and they continued to accuse men and society of keeping them in ignorance in order to better dominate them. In an article by Sophia Nadejde, she implies that the education given to women was never dictated by logic but by fashion and condemns the belief that the most important thing for a girl was simply to make herself beautiful and attractive. To archive this, it is important that the lady knows how to sing, dance and stutter. (Nadejde,