Today, June 28th, marks the anniversary of the birth (in 1712) of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a giant of the Enlightenment who nevertheless perfectly embodied the systemic misogyny of his era. In his famous treatise Émile (1762), he argued that the female mind existed solely to serve and complement the male counterpart: “The whole education of women […]

“To Please Men”: Rousseau’s Misogyny