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To keep women in the dark, because the former only want slaves, and the latterĪ play-thing. It, and there will be an end to blind obedience but, as blind obedience isĮver sought for by power, tyrants and sensualist are in the right when they endeavor In denying women the opportunity for education and thus reason, men areĮssentially placing women on the same level with brute animals. The ability for rational thought they in turn have the same capacity for reasonĪs men. Her argument follows the idea that if God made women with Wollstonecraftĭraws on Adams expostulation to God in Milton’s Paradise Lost when he claims:

Women are equal in the eyes God and therefore subject to the same moral laws. The same language or arguments for gender equality that later 19 thĪnd 20 th Century feminist would employ she does argue that men and Key factors which keep women in a state of oppression.

In A Vindication Wollstonecraft criticizes men and the education of women as the Rights of Woman is often credited as being “the founding text of Anglo-American feminism” (Taylor 197). Theory that a lack of education for girls’ is to blame for the current condition of adult women. It is within women’s education that Wollstonecraft grounds her Her Vindication serves as a treatise on the oppression of women, theirĭenial of voice in public and political arenas, and reform of women’sĮducation. Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792 in response to 18 th Century educational and political theorists. Wollstonecraft was criticized for herĪmorous pursuit of Henry Fuseli, a Swiss artist, her affair with Gilbert Imlay, her daughter out-of-wedlock with Imlay, assisting her sister in escaping anĪbusive marriage, attempted suicides, and affair and premarital pregnancy with William Godwin (Tomaselli).

Presence” but attacks on her personal conduct and moral character persisted well into the 20th Century (Damrosch 302). Wollstonecraft was “a brilliant thinker andĬonversationalist, a prolific polemical writer, a commanding social Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) has been, and is, celebratedĪs the mother of modern feminism. Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie oil on canvas, circa 17© National Portrait Gallery, London 3 Relevance to Romanticism and Revolution.

A vindication of the rights of woman 1792