Mary Wollstonecraft

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This paper explores the timeline of Mary Wollstonecraft's life, understanding the choices, relationships and events in her life in order to comprehend her drive and focus in liberal feminism over the course of her short, 38-year life. It reviews her treatise on the liberation of women's minds, rights, attitudes and futures through an analysis of each chapter of her work, "The Vindication of the Rights of Women".

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"In chapter 5, Mary continues to systematically condemn the attitudes of both men and women of her day. It is interesting to note that she recognizes the responsibilities on both sides of the issues, pointing out that in order to "satisfy this genius of men, women are made systematically voluptuous" serves to "deprave both sexes, because the taste of men is vitiated, and women, of all classes, naturally square their behavior to gratify the taste by which they obtain pleasure and power." She completes this chapter by accusing this behavior and the permissions to allow themselves to be treated this way as a causal factor for being weaker in mind and body."

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