So radical was her message that it would take until the 20th century for her views to become truly accepted. If they were not men’s equals, it was the fault of a society that refused to treat them as such. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects Mary Wollstonecraft Unwin, 1891 - Authors, English - 287 pages 7 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google. Mary Wollstonecraft is best remembered as a moral and political philosopher.
Wollstonecraft, in contrast, argued that women’s apparent triviality was a direct consequence of society failing to educate them. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Brief Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft. They not only did not need a rational education – it was assumed that they could not benefit from one. They were widely considered to be men’s inferiors, incapable of rational thought. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE WILLIAMS The term feminism did not yet exist when Mary Wollstonecraft wrote this book, but it was the first great piece of feminist. In the case of the Vindication, Wollstonecraft’s independent thinking went directly against the standard assumptions of the age regarding women.ĭuring the seventeenth century and earlier, it was an entirely standard point of view to consider women as, largely speaking, uneducable. Often considered to be the earliest widely-circulated work of feminism, the book is a powerful example of what can be achieved by creative thinkers – people who refuse to be bound by the standard ways of thinking, or to see things through the same lenses that everyone else uses. Mary Wollstonecraft's work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrage - Walpole called her 'a hyena in petticoats' - yet it established her as the mother of modern feminism.Mary Wollstonecraft’s 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Women is an incendiary attack on the place of women in 18th-century society. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner. Mary Wollstonecraft’s 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Women is an incendiary attack on the place of women in 18th-century society. Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792.
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