Mary Wollstonecraft

• Rationality

  Faculties of reason are present in all humans.
• Marriage and Women's roles

  Marriage should be a contract of friendship between 2 people, protecting morality.
• Government by Consent

  Women cannot vote (1759-1797 Wollstonecraft lived), so government by consent can't be possible.
• Strand

  Elements of classical and modern liberalism.
• Human Nature

  Men and women equally rational.
• The Economy

  Liberated women would contribute to society, state and economy. Everyone would benefit if everyone was free to be enterprising.
• The State

  No monarchical rule - Rule of law. Government by consent should include the right of women to consent to government.
• Society

  Society has restricted women's freedom and deprived them of natural rights.