Vindication of the Rights of WomanMary Wollstonecraft wrote Vindication of the Rights of Woman in response to public debate and discussion about the education of women. She argues that women should be educated according to their station, and that they could be more than mere wives to their husbands and educators to their children. The text is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. |
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The Liberation of Mary Wollstonecraft Life | 7 |
Bliss was it in that dawn the Political | 24 |
The Feminist Manifesto the Argument | 40 |
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