Mary Wollstonecraft Flashcards
What was Mary Wollstonecraft major publications?
‘A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women’ (1792) and ‘A Vindication Of The Rights Of Men’ (1790)
What Part Of Liberalism Did She Develop?
Classical Liberal Ideas and Feminist Ideology
What century was she do her work in?
18th century
What assumption about human nature did she make?
That all humans were guided by reason, which should apply to both males and females
Who did she imply was denying women individual freedom and formal equality?
Society and state, as they both implied women were not rational
What example did she use of a blatant violation of ‘government by consent’?
Women couldn’t vote or rarely allowed land ownership or remunerative employment
By not allowing women to have individualism what were nations limiting?
nations were limiting there stock of intelligence, wisdom and morality
What revolutions did she welcome?
The French Revolution (1789) and the American Revolution (1776)
Which conservative did she attack on their view of the French Revolution and their defence on customs, history and aristocratic rule?
Edmund Burke
Which type of government did she support?
a republican government with formal equality and involving a constitutional defence of individual rights
What did she conceded that women were complicit in doing?
The sexism of women being only desired for marriage an motherhood
How would this stigma about women be correct according to Wollstonecraft
formal education for both men and women
Why did she argue fro formal education
because without formal education individuals could never develop their rational faculties and never realise their individual potential and never recognise the ‘absurdity’ of illiberal principles
