Enlighntment

The Influence of women

• Marie theresa
• organized by-well connected and learned aristocratic women.
• joined together members of the nobility and wealthy members of the middle classes.

Masonic Lodges

• secrect societies with elaborate rituals
• pledged themselves to rational thought in all human affairs.

Coffeehouses

• Aided the circulation of new ideas

Salons

• organized intellectual life outside universities.

Mary Wollstonecraft

• viewed as the founder of modern European feminism.

Vindication of the rights of women

• women had the same innate capacity for reason and self-government.

The End