Treatment of Women In Voltaire's Period Contrasting the modern day women to the women in Voltaire’s period, we can look into the past and the present and see how women’s roles have changed. Women tried to overcome the notion that they are more than just sex objects, alive just to satisfy a mans needs and desires. There were unjust attitudes, such as the subordinate role of women at that time. In this paper I’m going to show that in the eighteenth century Europe, women were no more than objects of desire to satisfy a mans passions and desires. Women had no social or institutional power over anything. As a result, women did not have this kind of power, they were treated badly, raped and used as sex objects. The way the men treated the women in Voltaire’s period was so deplorable that women could not do anything that they ....

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