Mary Wollstonecraft · Politics

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

In 1792 Wollstonecraft turned the Enlightenment’s own logic on the Enlightenment itself: if rights rest on reason, and women are rational beings, then women have the same rights as men.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Wollstonecraft grounded women’s rights in their rationality. In your own words, why did she argue that denying women rights contradicted the Enlightenment’s own principles?

Leads to Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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