Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792, which advocated women's rights to vote and hold public office.
In the context of Mary Wollstonecraft's title "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," the word vindication means defending or justifying the rights of women to equality and education, and proving that they are deserving of these rights. The book argues against the prevailing views of the time that women were inherently inferior to men and advocates for their intellectual and social empowerment.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Men was created in 1790.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was created in 1792.
She was the queen of Aturnida and lived in a castle with her 6 kids and was beaten everyday with a cane because that was how women were treated back in the 18th century.
â??A Vindication Of The Rights of Women' by Mary Wollstonecraft is considered one of the earliest feminist works. She argues for the right of women to be educated, not just for themselves, but for the benefits of their husbands, children and communities. While never saying men and women should be equal in all ways, she calls for equal treatment in terms of morality.
In "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," Mary Wollstonecraft contrasts her logic and reasoning with the prevailing view that women were intellectually inferior to men. She argues that women are capable of reason and should be given equal educational opportunities to develop their potential.
Women were intellectually as intelligent as any man and sometimes more intelligent.
Mary Wollstonecraft has written: 'COLLECTED LETTERS OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT; ED. BY JANET TODD' 'Vindication of Rights of Women' 'Thoughts on the education of daughters' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Conduct of life, Education, Social and moral questions, Women, Young women 'Original stories from real life' -- subject(s): English Didactic fiction 'The Vindications' 'A vindication of the rights of woman' -- subject(s): Women, Women's rights, Early works to 1800, Education, Social and moral questions, Feminism, History, Great Britain, Women's right, Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797, Political rights 'Grammar Quiz' 'A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects' -- subject(s): Education, Feminism, History, Women, Women's rights 'Four new letters of Mary Wollstonecraft and Helen M. Williams' -- subject(s): Correspondence 'The rights of women' 'Women's Studies #2' 'Lettrs written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark' 'The love letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay' -- subject(s): Correspondence, English Authors, Love-letters, Feminists, Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 'Mary, a fiction and The wrongs of woman' -- subject(s): Fiction, Women 'The rights of woman' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Early works to 1800, Social and moral questions, Woman, Women, Women's rights 'Mary Wollstonecraft's a vindication of the rights of woman and, the wrongs of woman, or Maria' 'Mary Wollstonecraft's A vindication of the rights of woman' -- subject(s): Education, Fiction, Women, Women's rights 'Posthumous works' -- subject(s): Feminism, Women's rights 'A Wollstonecraft anthology' -- subject(s): Feminism, Literary collections 'A vindication of the rights of woman' -- subject(s): Social and moral questions, Women, Women's rights 'The rights of woman[by] Mary Wollstonecraft' -- subject(s): Education, Women, Women's rights 'A short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark' 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (English Library)' 'Political writings' -- subject(s): Causes, Early works to 1800, Education, Feminism, History, Human rights, Influence, Liberty, Women, Women's rights, Womens' rights 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Prometheus's Great Books in Philosophy Series)' 'Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Booksellers and bookselling, Correspondence, Description and travel, Early works to 1800, English Authors, Feminists, Journeys, Travel 'Mary Fiction (The Feminist controversy in England, 1788-1810)' 'An historical and moral view of the origin and progress of the French Revolution' -- subject(s): French Revolution, 1789-1804 (General), Causes, History 'Vindication of the Rights of Women With Strictures on political and other subjects'
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). Commentaries on the Laws of England (1758):