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Name: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

A masterpiece of feminist philosophy

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What’s in it for me? Get insight into the book that’s inspired feminists for the last two centuries.

Today we hear about feminism and women’s rights on a daily basis, but in 1792 this was not the case.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is often considered one of the first feminist texts and has been an inspiration for feminist thinkers through the ages. Although it is over 200 years old, many of the issues Wollstonecraft raises are still debated today. These include the difference in education between boys and girls, why some traits are seen as male and some female, and how women should be part of the democratic process.

These blinks take a look at some of Mary Wollstonecraft’s main ideas from this seminal work. They are crucial for anyone who wants to understand the development of feminist ideas and intellectual history.

In these blinks, you’ll find out

how a focus on women being beautiful deprives them of the respect men receive;
why the way girls are encouraged to play emphasizes an existing physical disadvantage; and
how inequality between men and women led to bad marriages.

Women should not be looked down on as second-class citizens.

Ever since the Bible said that Eve was made from a piece of Adam’s rib for his entertainment, women have been considered mere servants to men. But if we want a fair society, this notion has got to change.

A first step would be for women to be better represented in society; for instance, by having a greater voice in literature. This may seem like a small step, but it’s quite profound. Men have always been able to express their views on women, perpetuating the idea that they’re lesser than men. Meanwhile, women have rarely been able to voice their disagreement. Such behavior is deemed unladylike. Plus, to prevent any kind of disagreement, women were often given mind-numbing stories to read and denied any educational materials that might help them think critically.

Ensuring that women had more meaningful representation in government would be another step in the right direction. Governments composed solely of men often fail to even consider the rights of women.

From there, we should enable women to become as virtuous as men. Women are deprived of this opportunity because real virtue can only be attained by understanding and doing – neither of which women are encouraged to do.

Instead, women are merely taught to appear virtuous. That is, they’re taught to focus on their beauty and grace rather than on their ability to reason and the intellectual power that would command true respect.

People do not come by such respect easily, they must earn it. Women are at a tremendous disadvantage here as they aren’t allowed access to the education needed to earn the type of respect that one man has for another. Women won’t be able to break down this barrier until they have access to the knowledge needed to develop virtuousness and make rational decisions that are beneficial to society.

Girls should receive the same education and opportunities as boys.

Is there any material reason why girls shouldn’t be able to do all the same things as boys? Absolutely not. Yet from an early age, boys and girls are taught that they’re not equal, a lesson that’s perpetuated throughout their lives.

To combat this miseducation, girls should go to school alongside boys and study all the same subjects as them. Not just that, but these schools should also be public so that they’re full of kids from different backgrounds.

Women are kept mentally and physically weak to enable their oppression.

So, education and physical activity are promoted primarily to boys, but what problems does this cause?

For one, it allows men to suppress the status of women in order to sustain their own power. For the most part, these men either want to keep women as sexual objects or are simply bullies with the sole goal of absolute control.

Equal rights would encourage more stable and loving relationships between men and women.

A man’s relationship with his wife is molded by the inequality of the sexes, and men often treat their wives solely as a necessary means to procreation or a fashionable accessory.

Instead, men and women should forge friendships and not just love affairs. Such a practice would establish stronger and more sustainable bonds.

Greater rights for women would benefit society as a whole.

So, women should have greater rights than they do, but not so that they can overpower men. Rather, increasing the rights of women is necessary to put them on a fair footing with men and enable them to equally contribute to the world around them.

If women were men’s equals, they would be better able to bring up children and raise future generations. To this end, equal access to education would have a particularly strong impact. Well-educated women would be able to help their children with their studies. No longer would their sons have to rely on tutors to help them with their school work, and their daughters would be able to learn in their spare time, rather than being sent off to play with dolls.

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is a historical text that details the gender disparities of the eighteenth century. These blinks explain the ways in which women were subservient to men at this time, why the author wanted a fairer world to take shape and how she suggested it could be done.

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How can women be just and generous, when they are the slaves of injustice?

—Mary Wollstonecraft

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Über den Autor

English writer Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the first to argue for equal rights for women. Among her other works, she wrote the pamphlet, “Thoughts on the Education of Daughters.”

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