The issues of women’s rights has been around for years and will continue to stay in the presence of the public eye. Elizabeth Wollstonecraft fought for women’s rights throughout her life, with a primary focus on education. Wollstonecraft and her sister created a boarding school in Newington Green until the school shutdown for money troubles. The struggle she faced as a school owner caused her to write her first book, Thoughts on the Education of Daughter. Wollstonecraft wrote the book in 1780 to talk with mothers, young women and teachers to explain the importance of education for women from childhood to marriage. Wollstonecraft fights against the typical education women receive. “In the school of adversity we learn knowledge as well as virtue;
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Wollstonecraft discusses school as an entity of “adversity” to address the fact that schools perpetuate the misfortunes of women through the distribution of knowledge. The term she uses to describe a woman’s mind, wayward, speaks a great deal to the difficult struggle woman face daily of gaining total control over themselves. The access to knowledge that Wollstonecraft discusses in her book sheds light on to the “corrective” measures that must occur to allow woman the necessary skills to develop as a person. Wollstonecraft does write to women to change their everyday lifestyles because they are wrong. She simple writes to tell woman that their daughters deserve more and can achieve more than just housewife or maid. Wollstonecraft criticizes the traditional education women receive throughout their lives. Wollstonecraft writes this book to rid society of the stereotypical female by teaching mothers the importance of teaching their daughters similar skills to that of men. Wollstonecraft argues that women deserve more to their life then just what they receive in the …show more content…
Wollstonecraft notes that “life glides away,” making the statement that a woman’s life makes a smooth motion with no interruptions causing no change to happen throughout their experiences on earth. She also states that after females loses their youth “they have nothing to subsist on” or they receive some “charity.” Women do not have any rights or receive any form of substance, as a female their societal duty is to get married and have children. Wollstonecraft fights that statement because woman deserve more throughout their life. She then goes on to say, “It is hard for a person who has a relish for polished society, to herd with the vulgar, or to condescend to mix with her formal equals when she is considered in a different light... How cutting is the contempt she meets with!—A young mind looks round for love and friendship; but love and friendship fly from poverty: expect them not if you are poor!” (Wollstonecraft 74). Wollstonecraft addresses on to her previous statement by stating once a woman loses money and land, frequently through the death of her husband, she loses all entrance to a “polished society” or “mix with her formal equals”. Wollstonecraft makes this remark to state that women need to receive a proper knowledge because with that knowledge woman will always have the ability to keep their “young
Wollstonecraft discusses school as an entity of “adversity” to address the fact that schools perpetuate the misfortunes of women through the distribution of knowledge. The term she uses to describe a woman’s mind, wayward, speaks a great deal to the difficult struggle woman face daily of gaining total control over themselves. The access to knowledge that Wollstonecraft discusses in her book sheds light on to the “corrective” measures that must occur to allow woman the necessary skills to develop as a person. Wollstonecraft does write to women to change their everyday lifestyles because they are wrong. She simple writes to tell woman that their daughters deserve more and can achieve more than just housewife or maid. Wollstonecraft criticizes the traditional education women receive throughout their lives. Wollstonecraft writes this book to rid society of the stereotypical female by teaching mothers the importance of teaching their daughters similar skills to that of men. Wollstonecraft argues that women deserve more to their life then just what they receive in the …show more content…
Wollstonecraft notes that “life glides away,” making the statement that a woman’s life makes a smooth motion with no interruptions causing no change to happen throughout their experiences on earth. She also states that after females loses their youth “they have nothing to subsist on” or they receive some “charity.” Women do not have any rights or receive any form of substance, as a female their societal duty is to get married and have children. Wollstonecraft fights that statement because woman deserve more throughout their life. She then goes on to say, “It is hard for a person who has a relish for polished society, to herd with the vulgar, or to condescend to mix with her formal equals when she is considered in a different light... How cutting is the contempt she meets with!—A young mind looks round for love and friendship; but love and friendship fly from poverty: expect them not if you are poor!” (Wollstonecraft 74). Wollstonecraft addresses on to her previous statement by stating once a woman loses money and land, frequently through the death of her husband, she loses all entrance to a “polished society” or “mix with her formal equals”. Wollstonecraft makes this remark to state that women need to receive a proper knowledge because with that knowledge woman will always have the ability to keep their “young