Challenging the Status Quo To begin, it is fair to argue that Mary Wollstonecraft’s political theory and sociological …show more content…
214). Furthermore, she strengthens her argument for the advocacy of women’s ability to be reasonable and rational with her position on how women and men are socialized through education. Perhaps one of her most controversial ideas is that the education of men and women teaches society that women are inferior to men. Specifically, in her publication, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, “her contention is that the lack of intellectual development in women id due to the differences in educational opportunities between the two sexes” (213). It is for these reasons that the adaptation of her male cohorts’ views to her vision of women qualifies her as being avant-garde, or,