A Vindication Of Women's Rights By Mary Wollstonecraft

In my research paper I will be using “A Vindication of women’s rights” by Mary Wollstonecraft and use it to compare how women were treated then and how they are being treated now. Mary Wollstonecraft hoped to change societal views of women with her writings, using evidence today there has not been much of a difference between Wollstonecraft’s era. Mary Wollstonecraft implied how women should have the right to education and how they are being treated. Mary Wollstonecraft inspires other woman to get or try to get an education and tries to stop segregation. She also mentions in her vindication how women feel less when they are around men and how they have no voice in their society. In addition to her moral views she believes society has a big …show more content…
It describes how women are supposed to be dependent from their husbands, which makes them viewed as weak and fragile. It also mentions how they were going through the women’s suffrage movement and many of them spoke up. In this excerpt it mentions many ways of how society knows blame women for many things are well how women are seen in present society. It describes how young women are blamed for the teen pregnancy rate, girls and women are responsible for avoiding men’s gaze by covering their bodies, and many other issues. It also mentions how in today's society women’s bodies are being sexualized and objectified, which I could use in my research paper to compare how Mary Wollstonecraft mentions how men see their wives as sex objects. Wollstonecraft mentions how love, common passion, can then lead to marriage, although women were seen as sex object in some way love did …show more content…
Women’s in her society have no political or civil rights, men are involved in political and government issues such as voting. Men come and seek women for pleasure and just for a housewife, while Wollstonecraft believed that with progress and knowledge, it gives women freedom and education to have the ability to be virtuous and not depend on men. Wollstonecraft described how women in her society should never feel independent, they should always have fear and feel governed. Although Wollstonecraft does admit that men have an advantage because of their physical strength which makes them feel superior, she still believes that women’s rights should be respected, and that it demands justice for one half of the human race. Wollstonecraft also states how “the women who exercise the most reason are the most modest and most virtuous. Women's modesty can only improve when their bodies are strengthened and their minds enlarged by active exertions.” She also believed about feminism, that everyone such as men and women should be treated equally by society and have equal rights. She also explains how she doesn’t want women to be above men, she just wants them to be equal, she wants women to be independent from men and develop their minds by reasoning and to become virtuous. Also in her writings she explains how women were described as if they were born