Voltaire's Treatment of Women

Women The Age of Enlightenment was also the Age of Reason. A few elites expressed supreme confidence in the power of reason. “The thinkers of the Enlightenment, called philosophes, argued that it should be possible to examine human institutions with the intention of imposing a comparable order and rationality.” (Chase, 399) From the readings, I have found that women were not as much a big part of this Enlightenment as were religion and politics. But from …

…that want. Men barely know what they want. Well, I know what I want. Ok, no I don’t. Ever wonder why men have a midlife crisis? According to the authors I have discussed in this paper, women were not treated well back then. They were treated as sex objects. They didn’t receive proper education and were lower than “human creatures”. Time passed and now they are treated much better, but not good enough.