In early America, Mary Wollstonecraft’s ideas on women’s rights were not accepted. She thought that there needed to be a different social order. Wollstonecraft’s life and work were important influences to the feminist movement.
Wollstonecraft’s most influential piece of work is her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). In this work she argues that women are inferior to men because they lack an education. Wollstonecraft fought for women to have a better education. She believed that well-educated women would be better wives and mothers. Wollstonecraft believed that women could help educate children if they were better educated themselves. She also thought if women were educated then they could be seen more equal in their marriages.
Wollstonecraft’s most influential piece of work is her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). In this work she argues that women are inferior to men because they lack an education. Wollstonecraft fought for women to have a better education. She believed that well-educated women would be better wives and mothers. Wollstonecraft believed that women could help educate children if they were better educated themselves. She also thought if women were educated then they could be seen more equal in their marriages.