Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Annotated) Mary Wollstonecraft

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment. The work of Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of Women's Rights (1792), whose original English title is "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects", is one of the first works of literature and feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft disputes the position held by eighteenth-century political and educational theorists that women should not have access to education. Wollstonecraft argues that women should receive an education according to their position in society since, according to the writer, they are essential for the nation because they are the ones who educate children and because they could be considered not only mere wives, but pairs of their husbands. Instead of seeing them as simple decorative elements in society or goods with which to trade when agreeing to a marriage, Wollstonecraft maintains that women are human beings who deserve the same fundamental rights as men.