Mary wollstonecraft

The Gay 100: Mary Wollstonecraft, page 42

This September, the OUP Philosophy team honors Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) as their Philosopher of the Month. Wollstonecraft was a novelist, a moral

<AUTHORESS> Mary Wollstonecraft <WORK>Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

Throughout history women have been trapped between ideals of womanly behavior and their supposed inherent vices. Christianity for example tells us that as soon as the biblical God created paradise…

Mary Wollstonecraft believed that experience shaped thought and development and her own early life shaped her ideas about women's and human rights.

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The feminism entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica

Mary Wollstonecraft | "An early supporter of women's rights with her work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She argued that women only appeared intellectually inferior to men at the time because they lacked access to education (duh)."