User talk:Thomas.legrand/sandbox

Dear Thomas, These are all very good ideas. All three subjects have quite extension Wikipedia pages already, but I believe that you can make notable contributions especially if your ground them in scholarly sources and follow the lines of research that address the ideas about gender that you have articulated. I will approve any of the choices you have advanced. Check out the SDSU Library Guide link that I provided on our Blackboard page to assist you with your research. Teacheurohist (talk) 02:53, 26 February 2017 (UTC)Prof. Keller-Lapp

Work on gender-equality
Condorcet's work was mainly focused on a quest for a more egalitarian society. This path led him to think and write about gender equality in the Revolutionary context. In 1790, he published De l'admission des femmes au droit de cité ("For the Admission to the Rights of Citizenship For Women") in which he strongly advocated for women's suffrage in the new Republic as well as the enlargement of basic political and social rights to include women. One of the most renown Enlightenment thinkers at the time, he was one of the first to make such a radical proposal. A visionary, he identified gender as a social construction based on perceived differences in sex and rejected biological determinism as being able to explain gender relations in society. He denounced patriarchal norms of oppression, present at every institutional level, and continuously subjugating and marginalising women. Like fellow Enlightenment thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his book Emile ou De l'Education (1762), Condorcet identified education as crucial to the emancipation of individuals. He stated: ″ I believe that all other differences between men and women are simply the result of education″. He saw it as the only solution for women to deconstruct gender roles and promote another kind of masculinity, not based on violence, virility and the subjugation of women bur rather on shared attributes such as reason and intelligence. In his book "Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism", Hooks calls this new concept "feminine masculinity", ″new models of self‐assertion that do not require the construction of an enemy ‘other,’ be it a woman or the symbolic feminine, for them to define themselves against″. Condorcet's whole plea for gender equality is founded on the recognition that the attribution of rights and authority comes from the false assumption that men possess reason and women do not. As such women should enjoy the same fundamental natural right. Scholars often disagree on the true impact that Condorcet's work had on pre-modern feminist thinking. His detractors point out that when he was eventually given some responsibilities in the constitutional drafting process, his convictions did not translate into concrete political action and made limited efforts to push these issues on the agenda. Some scholars on the other hand, believe that this lack of action is not due to the weakness of his commitment but rather to the political atmosphere at the time and the absence of political appetite for gender equality on the part of decision-makers. Condorcet's work greatly influenced a new wave of feminists thinkers such as Mary Wollostrencraft and Olympes de Gouges who carried his struggle for gender equality into the 19th century. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thomas.legrand (talk • contribs) 23:39, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Your article contribution is very interesting and it looks like it will add good, useful information to the Wikipedia page. The grammar and spelling, punctuation all look good. The only mistake I saw was near the beginning "...in which he strongly advocated for women's suffrage in the new Republic as well was the..." Change was to as. There are no citations so make sure to add your sources before moving your information to the article. SarahK86 (talk) 21:41, 10 April 2017 (UTC)