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Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft and the Mis-education of Women
According to Wollstonecraft, women have been mis-educated by men and society in general (Wollstonecraft, 7). This has taken place because of the way women have been viewed in society, and how it is expected that they act. Wollstonecraft lived in a time when women were most definitely expected to act like "ladies," and were not allowed to work and make lives of their own in the same manner they do today. Those kinds of things would have simply been unacceptable to men and to society. Women also did not have rights like they do today, and they could not do for themselves because they were not legally able to do so. This fostered the belief that women were lesser creatures, and it is a belief that women took to heart for a long time (Wollstonecraft, 9). As society was studied by Wollstonecraft, however, she observed that women truly were mis-educated about their skills, their abilities, their worth, and other facets of their life and personalities that needed to be taken into consideration.
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The issue of women's liberation would eventually come to their rescue (Hewlett, 48). However, until that took place, women would continue to struggle because they were being told they could not do so many of the things they knew in their heart they were completely capable of doing. That disconnect from what they could do and what they were being allowed to do caused many women trouble (Hewlett, 55). That was a large part of the reason women struggled and felt as though they were mis-educated. It was not that men were necessarily trying to keep them down, but that men did not seem to agree with how much women were capable of doing and that they did not want them to be equal.
While not all women behave as Wollstonecraft states, in that they deferred to men and gave up on many of their dreams and abilities because they were not "allowed" to have them, there are certainly…
Works Cited
Hewlett, Sylvia Ann. A Lesser Life: The Myth of Women's Liberation in America. (1st. ed.). NY: W. Morrow and Co. 1986. Print.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. NY: Dover. 2012. Print.
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