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   Why is Mary Wollstonecraft important?

   • We strive for accuracy and fairness.If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers. Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer who advocated for women's equality.

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   What did Mary Wollstonecraft argue?

   • Wollstonecraft challenged all of this. She argued that it is not women's physical or psychological nature that is the issue, but rather their exclusion from educational opportunities. Wollstonecraft argued that women are just as rational as men. Her argument, however, depends on some theological premises.

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   How did Mary Wollstonecraft impact feminism?

   • Even feminist scholars, readers, and educators can still critique Mary Wollstonecraft’s work for its lack of solidarity with other women, her masculine writing, and lack of economic and racial analysis. However, her work still impacted first- and second-wave feminism.

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   Why did Wollstonecraft write Mary?

   • Mary is itself a novel of sensibility and Wollstonecraft attempts to use the tropes of that genre to undermine sentimentalism itself, a philosophy she believed was damaging to women because it encouraged them to rely overmuch on their emotions.

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   Apr 23, 2024 · Mary Wollstonecraft (born April 27, 1759, London, England—died September 10, 1797, London) was an English writer and passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women. She outlined her beliefs in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), considered a classic of feminism.

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   Brought up by an abusive father, Mary Wollstonecraft left home and dedicated herself to a life of writing. While working as a translator to Joseph Johnson, a publisher of radical texts, she published her most famous work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She died 10 days after her second daughter, Mary, was born.

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   Wollstonecraft was born on April 27, 1759, in Spitalfields, London. Her father was abusive and spent his somewhat sizable fortune on a series of unsuccessful ventures in farming. Perturbed by the actions of her father and by her mother’s death in 1780, Wollstonecraft set out to earn her own livelihood. In 1784, Mary, her sister Eliza and her best f...

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   In 1792, while visiting friends in France, Wollstonecraft met Captain Gilbert Imlay, an American timber merchant and adventurer. Taken by him, she soon became pregnant. They named their daughter Fanny, after Mary’s best friend. While nursing her firstborn, Wollstonecraft wrote a conservative critique of the French Revolution in An Historical and Mo...

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   Sep 29, 2022 · Wollstonecraft was a liberal feminist, in the classical sense. 1 This means that she believed that there are no morally significant differences between men and women. The problem is that women...

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   Apr 16, 2008 · Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1798) was a moral and political theorist whose analysis of the condition of women in modern society retains much of its original radicalism.

7. www.theguardian.com › lifeandstyle › womens-blogThe original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft

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   Oct 5, 2015 · Mon 5 Oct 2015 13.11 EDT. M eet the original suffragette: Mary Wollstonecraft. The founder of feminism, a philosopher, travel writer, human rights activist, she was a profound influence on...

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   Nov 26, 2022 · Original. This chapter introduces Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) as a woman, mother, scholar, writer, and wife/lover. The following entry describes how her tumultuous upbringing played a role in how she viewed society and how that influenced her later writings on rights...

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   Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason.