Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. In her most famous work Mary Wollstonecraft argued that if women were educated in the same way as men they would perform as well

And that society was wasting its assets by failing to educate them and to offer them the opportunity to work in the same areas as menMen are as much corrupted by being tyrants as women by being subject to them, she pointed out. Women should be trained for the professions and could run businesses and farms.

Date Published: 2 December 2010
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Contributors: Annabell James
In Collection(s): Celebrating women’s writing: the pen in their hands, Feminist Approaches to Literature
Keywords: mary wollstonecraft, Feminism, vindication of rights of women, gender, shelley, bodleian, shelley's ghost, #greatwriters
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