A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman By Mary Wollstonecraft

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a treatise written by Mary Wollstonecraft focusing on overcoming the ways in which women in her time are oppressed and denied their potential in society, with problems for their households and society as a whole. This is a dedication to the late bishop of Autun Charles M. Talleyrand-Perigord whose views on female education were distasteful to Wollstonecraft.

Wollstonecraft begins with setting out her view that the one which is greatly to be blame for the condition of the adult women is the neglect-ion of girl’s education. Women are treated as subordinate beings who are only concerned about being attractive, meek and elegant or in other word, they are only concerned about beauty. They buy into this oppression,

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