Enlightenment Debates on Gender, Education, and Social Equity

Absolutism, the Commercial Revolution, and Comparative Enlightenment

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Examine how Enlightenment thinkers debated women's rights and universal education, focusing on Mary Wollstonecraft's critique of patriarchal social structures.

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Absolutism, the Commercial Revolution, and Comparative Enlightenment

9th Grade · Social Studies · US-NJ-SS

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6.2.12.CivicsPR.2.aNew Jersey Social Studies Standards · 6th Grade

Compare the principle ideas of the Enlightenment in Europe (e.g., political, social, gender, education) with similar ideas in Asia and the Muslim / Islamic empires of the Middle East and North Africa.