《女子教育》【内容简介】
“我并非希望她们有掌控男人的权力,我只希望她们有掌控自己的权力。”
在沃斯通克拉夫特生活的十八世纪,女孩不过是所谓“家里的天使”,往往被禁锢于闺阁,才华无处施展,而对女子的教育也只让她们变得肤浅无能。作者在法国大革命前夕写成此书,随着大革命的爆发,她的名姓随其作品进入欧洲公众的视野。
在这本体小思精的早期作品中,作者沿袭并发展了约翰·洛克的基本教育理念,一方面批评当时女性教育的积弊,坚信教育乃个人理性得以充分发展之关键,另一方面也为英国新兴中产阶级提供了一份女儿教育的实用指南至今仍可供为人父母者参考。全书以性格、兴趣、礼仪、爱情、修为、对待动物等教育内容为主,辅以基本育儿指导,堪称今日盛行的自助指南手册之早期版本,语言上则汲取英国诸多文学传统的养料。这位女权主义先驱作为教育家的一面,在书中展露无遗,妙语灼见,闪现其间。
作者简介
作者玛丽·沃斯通克拉夫特(MaryWollstonecraft,1759-1797)
十八世纪英国著名女作家、思想家,以《为女权一辩》著称,此书被称为西方历史上第一部女权宣言,在欧洲思想史上占据重要地位。
译者李博婷
北京大学副教授,香港大学英语文学博士,中世纪及现代英语文学研究者。译有毛姆的《聪明的消遣》、文德勒的《打破风格》、沃斯通克拉夫特的《北欧书简》《女子教育》《法国革命》等。
Female Education 【 Content Introduction 】
"I don't want them to have power over men, I just want them to have power over themselves."
In Wollstonecraft's eighteenth century, girls were the so-called "angels of the house," often confined to the hadoirs where their talents could not be used, and the education of women made them shallow and incompetent. The author wrote the book on the eve of the French Revolution, and with the outbreak of the Revolution, her name entered the European public with her work.
In this early work, the author followed and developed John Locke's basic educational ideas, criticizing the shortcomings of female education at the time and believing that education was the key to the full development of individual reason, and providing a practical guide to the education of daughters for the new English middle class that is still available to parents today. Featuring educational content on character, interests, manners, love, manners, and the treatment of animals, supplemented by basic parenting instructions, the book is an early version of today's popular self-help manuals, and the language draws on many of the English literary traditions. The pioneering feminist educator is on full display in the book, with flashes of wit.
About the author
By MaryWollstonecraft (1759-1797)
A famous British woman writer and thinker in the 18th century, she is known for her "A Debate for Women's Rights", which is known as the first feminist manifesto in Western history and occupies an important position in the history of European thought.
Translator Li Boting
Associate Professor, Peking University, Doctor of English Literature, University of Hong Kong, researcher of Medieval and modern English literature. He has translated Maugham's Clever Pastime, Wendler's Breaking Style, Wollstonecraft's Norse Letters, The Education of Women, the French Revolution, and so on.