THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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She equated men’s power over women to kings’ power over subjects, saying that both are wrong.
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She said that women give birth to children, so they should be valued above men.
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She let her husband write “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” & put her own name on the cover.
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She refused to marry, instead she pursued her own career & accumulated much wealth.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In her work, Wollstonecraft argued that females should be regarded as full human beings who deserve all the same educational rights as men. Serious social harm and implications, she continued, would result from limiting the capacities of women and their mental and moral abilities.
Detailed explanation-2: -Wollstonecraft’s initial response was to write A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), a rebuttal of Burke that argued in favour of parliamentary reform, and stating that religious and civil liberties were part of a man’s birth right, with corruption caused in the main by ignorance.
Detailed explanation-3: -The basis for Wollstonecraft’s argument for equality between men and women is intellectual, but also political and financial, as she argues that women should be included in the political sphere and should be able to financially support themselves.