A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: written by the eighteenth-century British proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist viewpoint. In it, Wollstonecraft reacts to those educational and political theorists of the eighteenth century who did not accept women should have an education. She explains that women ought to have an education comparable to their position in society, demanding that women are fundamental to the nation because they educate its children. Instead of seeing women as embellishments to society or property to be sold in marriage, Wollstonecraft states that they are human beings worthy of the same basic rights as men. She starts a broad attack against sexual double standards and to indict men