![]() Wollstonecraft tears these arguments to shreds, saying that they end up causing a lot of social problems. ![]() They should focus on dressing nicely and being quiet. In other words, popular opinion in Wollstonecraft's time states that women shouldn't busy themselves with too much reading or studying. Once she gets into her argument, Wollstonecraft goes after some writers who have claimed that women's education should focus solely on making young women pleasing to men. For a gentleman living in Wollstonecraft's time, there were very few (if any) occasions in life where he would be called upon to use all of his strength. But in a modern civilization, this advantage shouldn't really mean anything. The one thing she's willing to admit is that men might have an advantage in physical strength. The only reason women don't seem as smart as men, she says, is because they aren't given the same education. ![]() And since men and women are born with the same ability to reason, women should enjoy just as much education, power, and influence in society as men do. She says from the get-go that humanity's greatest gift is its ability to reason. ![]() Wollstonecraft doesn't waste a whole lot of time in getting to the point in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Summary ![]()
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