A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Characters

First PrinciplesIf Wollstonecraft is anything, she's logical. She's so logical that she won't even begin her argument without laying down some premises that will inform everything she writes for th...

Unfair ThinkerJean-Jacques was a French philosopher who was famous for his ideas about human civilization and the "social contract" that binds all the people in a society together. He was actually...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau isn't the only writer who Wollstonecraft singles out for criticism in Vindication. She also goes after a dude named Dr. Fordyce, whose writings on women's education have harm...

It's hard enough for Wollstonecraft to argue against guys who think women should just look pretty and stay quiet. But it's even harder when other women, like the Baroness de Stael, start arguing th...

Wollstonecraft isn't a big fan of Dr. Gregory, although she's cuts him down a little more gently than she does the other writers she criticizes. She even confesses a certain liking for the guy when...