Summary of Angela Saini's Inferior

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#1 The letters I was holding were written by Charles Darwin to a Mrs. Caroline Kennard, who lived in Brookline, a wealthy town outside Boston. She had written to him asking if he believed women were inferior to men intellectually.

#2 Darwin believed that women were not just intellectually inferior to men, but they were better off not aspiring to a life beyond their homes. He believed that men had gained the advantage over women over thousands of years of evolution because of the pressure they were under to improve.

#3 When Darwin presented his findings about women and their role in society, he reflected how society felt at the time. His attitude reflected a train of scientific thinking that had stretched back at least as far as the Enlightenment, when the spread of reason and rationalism changed the way people thought about the human mind and body.

#4 The fight for women’s rights was not easy, and it required a lot of intellectual argumentation. The suffragists, like Caroline Kennard, realized that they could only win on intellectual grounds.

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