The theme of the reading assignments for this week, focused on the claim for equal rights. The Enlightenment Era thru the French Revolution open the door for new radical thought to promote change within a society. Drafting the “Declaration of the Rights of Man”-1789 France outline the rights due to its male citizens. Sharp criticism from opponents led to famous written debates from supporters of equal liberties. Mary Wollstonecraft “A Vindication of the Rights of Man” retaliated with the injustice plight of the English Lower Class. Followed by Thomas Paine’s “Rights of Man” defending the natural born rights of men.
Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the radical thinkers that gave a voice to women’s rights by challenging the need for educating …show more content…
Her thoughts were that a woman could also flourish when educated if they abandoned the mentality of being the weaker sex. In the line “Civilized women are, therefore, so weaken by false refinement, that, respecting morals, their condition is much below what it would be”(Wollstonecraft 233”). Wollstonecraft also challenges the concept that a woman only role was to give emotional support over logical thinking, supported by the line “women are plunged by the prevailing opinion, that they were created rather to feel than reason” (Wollstonecraft 235).
Mary Wollstonecraft writing was of interest, due to the subject matter of equal right. Her writing had an emphasis for women to elevate themselves and come out of the shadow of their male counterpart to claim their equality. Writing that would influence future female writers, like Jane Austen to write women characters as heroines. The arguments relayed in “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” are many of the same concepts used by feminist activist of modern times. Equal rights for women is still a major debate in the twenty-first
Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the radical thinkers that gave a voice to women’s rights by challenging the need for educating …show more content…
Her thoughts were that a woman could also flourish when educated if they abandoned the mentality of being the weaker sex. In the line “Civilized women are, therefore, so weaken by false refinement, that, respecting morals, their condition is much below what it would be”(Wollstonecraft 233”). Wollstonecraft also challenges the concept that a woman only role was to give emotional support over logical thinking, supported by the line “women are plunged by the prevailing opinion, that they were created rather to feel than reason” (Wollstonecraft 235).
Mary Wollstonecraft writing was of interest, due to the subject matter of equal right. Her writing had an emphasis for women to elevate themselves and come out of the shadow of their male counterpart to claim their equality. Writing that would influence future female writers, like Jane Austen to write women characters as heroines. The arguments relayed in “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” are many of the same concepts used by feminist activist of modern times. Equal rights for women is still a major debate in the twenty-first