A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Why does Wollstonecraft believe that men should not be in charge of women's moral and intellectual growth ?
Vindication of Women
Vindication of Women
Wollstonecraft says that if women have souls then there should be no fundamental difference between men and women in pursuing and attaining virtue. Men complain about the silliness and folly of women but do not comprehend that people themselves are responsible for the ubiquity of women's servility; from childhood women are taught to be weak, soft, cunning, and proud only of their beauty. Women are kept in a state of childhood and innocence, and when the term "innocence" is applied to women it designates them as weak rather than blameless.
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