Mary Wollstonecraft · Politics

The Gilded Cage: Education and Degradation

Wollstonecraft’s deepest claim was that women’s apparent weakness was no fact of nature but the manufactured product of a corrupt education designed to make them charming, dependent, and unfit to reason.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Wollstonecraft traced women’s degradation to their education. In your own words, how did she argue that a system can manufacture the very inferiority it then uses to justify itself?

Leads to John Locke.

epoché — a humanities education that remembers you.