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"It is the duty of a girl living in her parents' house to practice filial piety toward her father and mother. But after marriage, her duty is to honor her father-in-law and mother-in-law . . . to love and reverence them with all ardor and to tend them with a practice of filial piety. . . . When a husband issues his instructions, the wife must never disobey them. . . . A woman should look upon her husband as if he were Heaven itself and never weary of thinking how she may yield to him and thus escape celestial castigation."
"The Great Learning for Women," Kaibara Ekken, Japanese philosopher, c. 1729
"I love man as my fellow, but his scepter, real or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then, the submission is to reason, and not to man. In fact, the conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason; or on what foundation rests the throne of God?"
A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft, English essayist, 1792
-Which of the following movements MOST likely influenced Wollstonecraft's thinking?


A) The Church of England instilled belief that the throne of God was the power behind English rulers.
B) Enlightenment philosophers taught that scientific reasoning should be applied to all aspects of society.
C) The Counter-Reformation led to the creation of new religious orders such as the Jesuits.
D) The Chartists held that all people were created equal, and therefore called for universal suffrage.

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