Wollstonecraft Vs Wolstonecraft
Wollstonecraft wrote her essay during the French Revolution and discusses the implications of what would happen should women lose the ability to foster their rank through their reasoning. She argues that if women obtain their power unjustly, “they become either abject slaves or capricious tyrant. They lose all simplicity, all dignity of mind, in acquiring power, and act as men are observed to act when they have been exalted by the same means” (Wollstonecraft 84). She delegates that women could become submissive beings or superior tyrants by being licentious. Women who are rejected from the right to equal education and reasoning can promote their own social welfare by retaliating against societal norms. While Wollstonecraft warns against women