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Double Standards: Analyzing the Gender Inequality Lurking in Rousseau’s Discourse

Double Standards: Analyzing the Gender Inequality Lurking in Rousseau’s Discourse

Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s A Discourse on Inequality is an influential work of the early romantic period which has impacted many philosophers throughout the centuries. His views as a privileged and wealthy white man allow him to speak of returning to “the good old days” where men lived for themselves, with the freedom to go and do as they pleased, unshackled by the rules and expectations of modern society.