Ivy
Traditional views would have us think that women are like ivy, a plant that tends to cling to other stronger plants in order to support itself. In other words, people think that women should cling...
Birdcage
Wollstonecraft mentions on several occasions that women exist inside symbolic cages because of the way male-dominated society has treated them. But instead of trying to break out, these women focus...
Streams
Wollstonecraft uses the image of a stream several times in this book, but it's really more of a trope than a symbol, because she never really uses it in the same way twice. She originally introduce...