![]() In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Wollstonecraft states that women are not inherently inferior to men, and that they only appear so because they have been denied a proper education, leaving them ignorant. Since there is a lot of existing research into Wollstonecraft, I will be exploring this question more in depth by investigating her writings and personal life. ![]() One could argue that Wollstonecraft used these as rhetoric, but one could also argue that they are true to her actual beliefs. Within Rights of Woman Wollstonecraft uses logic and philosophies that would be considered very restrictive and misogynistic by today’s standards, even though she is considered one of the earliest feminists. ![]() Soon after she released her most well-known text A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). During the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft wrote Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) in response to Edmund Burke’s conservative critique of the revolution, and also went to France to participate in the revolution. Raised in a middle-class family that ran into financial troubles later on, she decided to create a career for herself as an author after the moderate success of her first novel, Mary: A Fiction (1788). ![]() Mary Wollstonecraft was born the 27th of April 1759 likely in London, England. ![]()
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