Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women
What is Wollstonecraft’s view on human nature?
Optimistic. Since both men and women can act in a rational way, there should be equal rights for both sexes
Wollstonecraft argued that the inequality between men and women was illogical and irrational. Women are just as capable of acting rationally as men.
What is Wollstonecraft’s view society?
Society ‘infantilised’ women and thus stifled female individualism
Wollstonecraft advocated for formal equality, where women were entitled to the same civil liberties as men. In doing so, women would be able to experience a life of genuine liberty free from the constraints of patriarchy
A free-market economy would be energised by the enterprise of liberated women
