Early France’s most capable women declined to join the feminist cause

Evidence

The most intelligent women of the period took no part in these movements: Mme de Staël fought for her own cause rather than her sisters’; George Sand demanded the right for free love but refused to collaborate on La Voix des Femmes; her claims are primarily sentimental. Flora Tristan believed in the people’s redemption through woman; but she is more interested in the emancipation of the working class than that of her own sex. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 256

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Overt and structural barriers excluded women from law until the late twentieth century — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 663; Early women’s education advocates kept reason masculine and only expanded the feminine sphere — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 708
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Overt and structural barriers excluded women from law until the late twentieth century — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 663; Early women’s education advocates kept reason masculine and only expanded the feminine sphere — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 708

Broader Connections

• Overt and structural barriers excluded women from law until the late twentieth century #complicates (0.72) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 663