Mary Wollstonecraft · Politics
Wollstonecraft’s boldest metaphysical claim was that reason and virtue have no sex - that the human soul is one, and that any ‘separate’ female virtue is a contradiction in terms.
You learned that Wollstonecraft denied there could be separate male and female virtues. In your own words, why did she think the idea of a special ‘feminine virtue’ was a trap?
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