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Rebecca Wilkin

  • Assistant Science Editor, Newsela
New Jersey, New York
As seen in: Business Insider, New York Post, Oxford University Press (OUP), Phys.org, HuffPost UK, Business Insider India, Aeon, London Review of Books, Rewire.News, Stockhead and
Content Curator for Science @Newsela // Formerly: @BrookhavenLab Intern, @BusinessInsider Science Video Fellow

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Inequality was a feminist idea, before it was Rousseau’s

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By Rebecca Wilkin
| Aeon Verified
Staring down at his last sous in March 1743, Jean-Jacques Rousseau gathered up his courage and knocked at the door of Madame Dupin. As the out-of-wedlock daughter of an ex-Protestant draper-turned-financier, Louise Dupin was one of the wealthiest women in Paris. Her father, Samuel Bernard, had grown rich as one of the founding partners of the Compagnie de Guinée, and then immensely rich arranging loans to finance Louis XIV’s territorial wars.
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Revolutionary Féminisme

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By David Todd, Angela Hunter, Rebecca Wilkin
| London Review of Books Verified
Choderlos de Laclos​ ’s Liaisons dangereuses is remembered for its salacious intrigues, but it’s also about the condition of women. Addressing the Vicomte de Valmont, her partner in games of intimate deception, the Marquise de Merteuil declares that all aspects of social life are more fraught with danger for women: ‘As for you men, your defeats are only a success the less.
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Introduction to the Volume

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By Angela Hunter, Rebecca Wilkin
| Oxford University Press (OUP)
The introduction characterizes Louise Dupin’s Work on Women as the most substantial feminist treatise of the French Enlightenment. It explains the impetus offered by Dupin’s mentor, the Abbé de Saint-Pierre; the inspiration provided by the seventeenth-century feminist Poulain de la Barre; and the duties performed by her secretary, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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