A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
hat two types of "masculine women" does Wollstonecraft acknowledge
It's somewhere in "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"
It's somewhere in "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"
From what I can understand, Wollstonecraft questions the definition of masculine,
"I am aware of an obvious inference. From every quarter have I heard
exclamations against masculine women, but where are they to be
found? If by this appellation men mean to inveigh against, their
ardour in hunting, shooting, and gaming, I shall most cordially
join in the cry; but if it be against the imitation of manly
virtues, or, more properly speaking, the attainment of those
talents and virtues, the exercise of which ennobles the human
character, and which raises females in the scale of animal being,
when they are comprehensively termed mankind, all those who view
them with a philosophic eye must, I should think, wish with me,
that they may every day grow more and more masculine."
She makes the point that if masculinity mean virtues, woman have already attained them.