Women Writing; The Education of Women

I have to say that my favourite piece of writing from this week was Margaret Fell Fox's "Women's Speaking Justified, Proved and Allowed by the Scriptures". I always enjoy reading about the freedom and equality of women; especially when the writer cites examples to prove themselves. It was often the case that women of this time were dismissed and considered to be shrewish women because they voiced their opinion. Sarah Fyge Egerton whom we also read about this week was unwillingly married because of her parent's disapproval of her writing. But this essay about women in the Bible just struck a cord with me. She gave examples that anyone could find, this was incredibly intelligent of her because people would have been unable to dispute her examples because that would be disputing the Bible. They could cite their own examples and ideas but they could not say that her examples were incorrect. She was able even to reexamine the part of the Bible that has been most damaging to women, Adam and Eve and the temptation of the fruit. She explains that God says "he [God] hath put enmity between the Women and the Serpent; and if the seed of the Women speak not, the Seed of the Serpent speaks". This is a really awesome example because it truly challenges the ideas that the world had about women.