Test 1- Mary Wollstonecraft Flashcards
What was her main purpose?
Women’s rights
Education for who?
Men and women
Women have what types of rights?
Natural rights and inheritance rights
What was she know as
“Mother of the Feminist Movement”
According to her, women have natural rights where?
Only inside the house and home
What should be based on the woman?
Social standings
Why didn’t she write that all women have natural rights?
She would have been killed
What did she believe about men’s names?
Their last names should not go to the next generation
What did she believe about education?
It was the only way to end discrimination.
What is a dowry?
A bribe to someone to take the daughter away. The daughter never got the land
What idea of hers do we still use today?
Education to get rid of discrimination.
What was her type of government
Anything that allows women’s rights
What is vindication?
Come back to prove what you knew all along
