Wollstonecraft's A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women

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Over time women’s rights and the way they are viewed by society have changed. During the pre-colonial time, women did not have the same rights they do today. Many common ways women were oppressed in pre-colonial time would not be considered acceptable today. When it comes to the topic of women’s rights during the pre-colonial times versus women’s rights today, most people will readily agree that women during pre-colonial times had a very limited amount of rights and have advanced today.
In Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women she was very blunt toward the inequality women had versus men. During this time people were not used to the bluntness of women writing, the people weren’t as open minded as today. As Wollstonecraft stated in A Vindication of the Rights of Women, “the neglected education of my fellow creatures is the grand source of the misery I deplore” this shows how during pre-colonial times, women lacked education and individuality. Women today are allowed to have an education and prosper in life, they are allowed to become economically independent and not depend on a man. Wollstonecraft stated, “females rather as women than human creatures, have been more anxious to make them alluring mistresses than rational wives,” this shows how women didn’t
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Anne Hutchinson, at the Court of Newton it states, “Anne Hutchinson was the first woman in America to challenge the unequal status of women.” Consequently, her punishment for speaking up was, “banished from the colony, and later excommunicated.” This was all result of the beliefs during this time that, “she had stepped out of the woman’s proper place by daring to preach and interpret God’s word as men did.” This not only shows that women had no right to speak up for what they believed in but that women did not have the same rights as men did during that time. Women today have the power to speak their mind and men and women have equal rights and

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