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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Wollstonecraft argues that women should be educated in a manner that makes them more "masculine." This does not mean to make them "like" men, but to develop in women the same virtues that cause men...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Probably not. Although Wollstonecraft had plenty to say about marriage in "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," you won't see her saying (or even hinting) that marriage should be avoided...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is, in fact, heavily influenced by Enlightenment ideas. Wollstonecraft was deeply read in the Enlightenment, and this work was written to challenge the highly...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
In the first paragraph of the dedication (to Mr. Talleyrand-Perigord, an active leader in the French Revolution), Wollstonecraft uses the words "independence" and "humanity" - although these don't...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Certain elements of Mary Wollstonecraft's essay, "Vindication of the Right of Woman," seem familiar or obvious to us, especially her insistence on gender equality, but, in fact, many of her ideas...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
One of the fundamental authorities that Wollstonecraft challenges is the social construction that places women in roles that embody stratification. Wollstonecraft refutes the authority of social...
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
These two texts are very interesting in the way that they examine both slaves and women as being treated as less than human in various ways, even though, arguably, it is possible to say that the...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
If you are operating out of a course syllabus, class text, and/ or instructor notes, I would refer to those in answering a multiple choice question. In terms of the options available, I think that...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The core of Wollstonecraft's argument is secular in nature. Wollstonecraft is mainly concerned with demonstrating that many of the supposedly inferior traits that important eighteenth century...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstoncraft's objective was to prescribe a way that women's "manners" might be modified in order to raise them from the societally oppressed position of being considered nothing more than...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Part of Bakhtin's basic idea is that there is an interplay that exists within all construction of language. Nothing, Bakhtin would argue, simply exists on its own. Rather, it is a construction of...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
It seems as if it is a tough standard to meet if Mary Wollstonecraft is anti- feminist if she critiques women who capitulate to the traditional notion of being a woman. I think that Wollstonecraft...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Based on the information in the introduction of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women, I would choose answer "D"... "Getting an education will make them more masculine."...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
In Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, she applies "vindication" in the introduction in several ways. First, "vindication" is defined as... ...to uphold or justify by...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft, in A Vindication of the Rights of Women, rejects the metaphorical image of the man being the oak and the woman being the ivy. Metaphorically, the image of the oak and the ivy...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
You might like to consider the Introduction of this brilliant essay to see Woolstonecraft's main concerns and criticisms of the education system which she argues is to blame for so much of the...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
I would have thought that the biggest implication out of the choices you list would have been social, as this treatise calls for a massive reassessment of the role of women in society and how they...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Your question seems to indicate that Mary Wollstonecraft was American and wrote in an American context. In fact, she was English and wrote this powerful essay based on her experience of being a...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
I would want to answer this question by talking about the relationship of Marianne as defining sensibility to the kind of image of women that Wollstonecraft argues against in her essay....
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The title gives away the main theme of this essay: in it, Mary Wollstonecraft focuses on women's rights, arguing that women should be allowed to have the same educational opportunities as men and...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Woollstonecraft certainly has a lot to say about men and their role in creating a situation and a society in which women are taught only to please men. This "barren blooming" is attributed to...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
One of the ways in which Wollstonecraft's work is relevant to our time is that it discusses an issue that is relevant to our world. The idea of women advocating for equality and stressing to have...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
alexzandramarie, In the first paragraph, Wollstonecraft asserts that “those beings who are only the objects of pity” will soon become “objects of contempt.” Wollstonecraft sees “pretty...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the rights of Woman is Wollstonecraft's fundamental work where she outlines feminism and her view on the rights of women. It is often spoken as her most important work and the...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A satire pokes fun at serious topics, like government, politics, etc. "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" can fit into the satire category because the author criticizes the...