Mary Wollstonecraft was an unmarried woman at the time she wrote “A vindication of the rights of Women” and felt frustrated that the only choice a woman had in life was marriage. She was a feminist in the 18th century. It was the first feminist work. It proclaims that women should be the equal to men and have the same rights as men. At the time, Europe was undergoing a humanist revolution in which philosophers and thinkers were saying that humans should have rights and they have value as individuals.
Mary Wollstonecraft's “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” is a treatise on how unfair it is that there is a class system in which certain people are valued more than other and men receiving more rights than women and have more power than
Mary Wollstonecraft's “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” is a treatise on how unfair it is that there is a class system in which certain people are valued more than other and men receiving more rights than women and have more power than