USA HISTORY

THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774

THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This enlightenment thinker, from England, was a strong advocate for women’s rights.
A
Locke
B
Voltaire
C
Hobbes
D
Wollstonecraft
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights. She was the major female voice of the Enlightenment. Until the late 20th century, however, Wollstonecraft’s life, received more attention than her writing. The majority of Wollstonecraft’s early works focus on education.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mary Wollstonecraft was a renowned women’s rights activist who authored A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792, a classic of rationalist feminism that is considered the earliest and most important treatise advocating equality for women.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mary Wollstonecraft, perhaps the best known woman philosopher of the Enlightenment, experienced firsthand the social upheaval that was the French revolution.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and a passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women. She called for the betterment of women’s status through such political change as the radical reform of national educational systems. Such change, she concluded, would benefit all society.

Detailed explanation-5: -As one of the most prominent female philosophers in the eighteenth-century, Wollstonecraft expanded Enlightenment ideas of reason, logic, and human liberty to include women, a stance that influenced many other women writers and laid the groundwork for later women’s rights movements.

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