A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Themes

You've been reading a book called A Vindication of the Rights of Woman , so you're correct if you assumed that women and femininity are major themes in this book. Gold star for you! The issue at t...

Now, just to set the record straight: Wollstonecraft doesn't dislike men. She believes that most men are truly good people. That's exactly why she wants women to receive the same education and the...

For women of Wollstonecraft's time, marriage was the only future for women, and the only way they could get a taste of the public world. At the same time, it was an institution that completely push...

Wollstonecraft tends to use the word "love" in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman when what she really means is (heterosexual) sexual attraction. When she's talking about mutual respect and admi...

For Wollstonecraft, women of her time were slaves to men: they were the legal property of men and forced to obey them. If men had a good reason for treating women like slaves, Wollstonecraft mainta...

Wollstonecraft states as a matter of fact in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman that women in her time care deeply about their appearances. But this preoccupation with appearances makes total se...

In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman the question of women's rights centers on education. There is nothing Wollstonecraft wants more than for women to have access to the same kind of education...

Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman during a time when reason was considered the greatest power a human could have. But people believed that reason was a gift from God, and a...