Who Is Mary Wollstonecraft

The Insightful Writings of Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft had many impactful and important ideas in her writings about women and their place in the world; in society. She touched on many concepts throughout her writings, such as marriage, masculinity, knowledge, obedience, and many more. In this essay, I will be discussing one of her most important topics; the expectations of women in society. Women are an important part of society, but are rarely acknowledged as such, and haven’t for centuries. Men have held women as property throughout the entirety of history; making them essentially exist only to look pretty and do chores for them. Wollstonecraft reflects this idea in her writing when she states; “Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience, and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for …show more content…
Education systems, and society as a whole, don’t seem to enjoy focusing on the minorities and the oppressed, so these amazing writers and philosophers such as Wollstonecraft often go unrecognized, unlike the intellectual, white men such as John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. Wollstonecraft’s ideas are strong, and very rarely outspoken during her time. She received so many repercussions for spreading her ideas and writings, even resulting in her husband divorcing her. She was strong and is such a strong and amazing influence to women, especially during her time. Her views are clearly still supported today in our modern-day feminism, although credit and recognition for her is often swept under the rug. So, in conclusion, Wollstonecraft has made huge impacts in society and the ideas behind women and their treatment and “role” in society, even impacting modern-day