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¶ … vindication rights woman - Mary Wollstonecraft (primary source) http://web.archive.org/web/19970803094951/http:/www.baylor./~BIC/WCIII/Essays/rights_of_woman.html Declaration rights Women, Olympe de Gouge, 1791(Compareable source) http://www.
This is a novel entitled "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects" and it is meant to address society regarding the fact that women are discriminated on a frequent basis without anyone doing anything to stop this wrongness.
Mary Wollstonecraft's 1792 "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects" is one of the first texts written on the topic of feminism. The writer is a philosopher and an ardent supporter of female writes during an era when women were generally regarded as being inferior to men. In addition to writing on the topic of women being discriminated, she also focused on other topics that required moral attention and did not hesitate to criticize individuals and institutions that she considered to be oppressing in character.
This text was written during a period when equality was a very delicate topic, considering that most influential individuals in the social order believed that patriarchy was an effective tool in...
The writer was frustrated with the fact that some people went as far as to openly put across their opinion concerning how women were unworthy of receiving education similar to the one that was accessible to men.
II. Argument
1. Wollstonecraft's intended to address society as a whole through her writing and expected that it would actually influence people in changing their opinion regarding gender roles. The text is generally meant to emphasize that in spite of the fact that it claims to be modern, society is actually unable to experience more rapid progress because the masses are unwilling to accept that women should be provided with equal rights. It is actually difficult to determine whether the writer speaks out of frustration (because she knows that no one is going to do anything about the matter in the near future) or whether she actually hopes that her text will be successful in having readers lobby in favor of equal rights regardless of a person's gender.
The writer claims that men are blinded by their egos and that this prevents them from understanding that women are responsible for educating children. This means that they need to be educated in order to be able to put across proper educational…
Works cited:
Wiliams, Helen Maria, "Letters Written in France," (Broadview Press, 21.08.2001)
Wollstonecraft, Mary, "A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects," (J. Johnson, 1796)
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