Mary Wollstonecraft

Question 1

Who is she

Answer 1

An early feminist writer who argued in the rationality of women and the need for formal equality.

Question 2

Key text

Answer 2

‘A vindication of the rights of women’

Question 3

Feminist queen

Answer 3

She was well ahead of her time challenging the then orthodox view that women were less rational than men and therefore entitled to fewer rights.

Question 4

Key to women reaching their potential

Answer 4

Keys to women reaching their potential were education and having the same opportunities and legal protections as men. Women should be able to choose career or children, both were of equal value.

Question 5

Tyranny

Answer 5

Marriage should be between two equals, male tyranny over their wives is wrong just as tyranny of the state is wrong.

Question 6

Supported

Answer 6

American and French revolutions and the constitutional defence of individual rights but stressed this should be for men and women.