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Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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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: 02 December 2010
Contributors:
Annabell James
In Collection(s): Feminist Approaches to Literature, Celebrating women’s writing: the pen in their hands
Keywords:
mary wollstonecraft, Feminism, vindication of rights of women, gender, shelley, bodleian, shelley's ghost, #greatwriters
Source:
University of Oxford Podcasts
Cite: Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Annabell James at http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via http://writersinspire.org/content/mary-wollstonecraft-vindication-rights-woman. Published on 02 December 2010. Accessed on 08 November 2024.

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