Wollstonecroft
A
Vindication of the Rights of Women.
a.
Places a position that men do not see women
having sufficient strength of mind to acquire what really deserves to be called
virtue.
i. Women
are told from infancy and reinforced by their mothers that they need the
protection of men.
ii. Men
suppress women by keeping them in a state of childhood.
1.
Childhood as applied to men or women is
considered a weakness and insulting.
iii. Women
must be allowed knowledge and education at the same level as men. “Allowed to turn to the sun.”
b.
Women need individual education that:
i. Forms
temperament and regulates the passions, that will
ii. Slowly
sharpen the senses and set understanding at work before maturity.
iii. That
women are ready learn at maturity and not have to start over.
iv. Men
and women must be educated by some extent by the manners and opinions of
society.
v. The
best education will form the body and the heart to follow habits of virtue to
render it independent.
c.
Society must change before there is a change in
education, as well as women must resign the arbitrary power of beauty.
d.
The subjects (academics) of female education
have contributed to rendering women artificial, weak of character, and useless
members of society.
e.
Women have been degraded by rendering them
pleasing at the expense of solid virtue.
f.
Causes that prevent their understanding and
sharpening of their senses:
i. Disregard
to order. Lack of exacting education
like men.
ii. Learning
by piecemeal.
iii. Women
aren’t challenged by education.
iv. Cultivation
of learning is secondary to corporeal accomplishments.
g.
Strengthen the mind of women and there will be
an end to blind obedience. Unfortunately
those in power seek blind obedience.
h.
Forms a position that prevailing attitudes lead
back to Eve being a rib of Adam.
i.
Forms a position that the virtues men seek
should be allowed and recognized by women.
Works
Cited
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the
Rights of Women. 1792.
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