Analysis Of Mary Wollstonecraft's From A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman

At one point in time, there was a distinct line between a woman's place and a man's place. And through these years woman have become overly aware that women are living in a man's world. Rich, white men held the power and women were part of the traditional marginalized people. However today, gender roles are shifting. Though, some things do not change. Women have been made to believe through patriarchy that woman's only job is to have children and raise those children. Woman and men in a relationship with one another should be able to work together as a team. In Mary Wollstonecraft's story “From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” it is written, “...make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives, and mothers; that is if men do not neglect the duties of husband and fathers.” (Wollstonecraft 105) When women feel as if they can consider themselves equal, they will start acting like the wives and mothers that the patriarchal society has been …show more content…
For the women who can not go through these risky abortions they are left with nine month of hard labor just to have a child that they do not want. In Margaret Sanger's “Letter to the Readers of The Woman Rebel,” it is written, “thousands of unwanted children may be brought into the world in the meantime, thousands of women made miserable and unhappy.” (Sanger 224). It is through natural law that only women can give physical life by bearing a child. Even though, that is slowly changing with the help of science. So, as a time continues to click on, women and men's roles in society and a relationship continue to change but continue to be viewed as the same. Women are viewed to stay home and are raised to believe they are only to be mothers while the father's get to explore the world and become the bread