A Vindication on the Rights of Women Wollstonecraft
A Vindication on the Rights of Women Wollstonecraft - Main Points Source : Google Images I n her essay, Wollstonecraft comes out against a society of men and women who live a life according to some conditioned beliefs. She accuses the men for viewing women as a household being, valued only for their beauty. Then she accuses the women for being concerned about their beauty, and living a submissive according to the rules set by men. In her initial chapters, Wollstonecraft launches an attack on men for making women as beings dependent on men. “The neglected education of my fellow creatures is the grand source of misery deplore”. The many books written by men have reduced. Women to their beauty and alluring mistresses than rational wives. Such books advice womenfolk not to engage in so called masculine life. It tells women how to make themselves presentable, table manners, how to please men - all things that do not facilitate the development of reason or thinking. And these have brainwash