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TABLE OF CONTENTSExplain how Wollstonecraft perceived women to be ‘degraded’ in her day by traditionalattitudes on how women should behave. ........................................................................................1REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................4
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A Vindication of rights of women focuses on the education of women on how females are beingdegraded from males, and they have rights of being educated rather than getting education in aconfined and restricted seminary. They deserve to be respected and must be treated equally inevery aspect. Women are more emotionally strong and have more potential to run a family andcan take care of a child. Here, Mary Wollstonecraft who was also known as mother of feminism,was an English writer who had devoted many pages that endorsed women and their rights toattain a place in the male dominated society.Explain how Wollstonecraft perceived women to be ‘degraded’ in her day by traditional attitudeson how women should behaveWollstonecraft was an English woman writer who had devoted many pages thatmagnified a women role in the society. She says that either man and women are naturallydifferent as the world has made the partiality between them (Wollstonecraft. 1996, p. 9). Fromthe day women is born, they face that they are weak and dependent upon men; hence they justcompete with other women. They are not centred on any other things or duties because they arehousebound. Due to confinement in their private sphere, women always chooses to stay at homerather than going to public places. They were not allowed to do jobs nor they were permitted toparticipate in any political area. Education of women lacks in such a way that it does not allowthem to take their own decisions, ultimately all the pronouncements are taken by males.Wollstonecraft has mentioned in her work from the view point on moral attitude that females areinferior to men. The main theme of vindication is education. Women are inferior because of theireducation system. As the studies of females mentioned here and was heavily based ondomesticity are of not much relevance, hence it is inapt. They do not get to learn anythingserious or even if females learnt anything of substance, it would be considered as essential fortheir living. Bodies of females are not strong because they are forced to stay inside the house andthus even at boarding schools, women are just used to compete with other girls of the same age.That is why, they should attain school with boys and live with families rather than living in aboarding school. This will result in letting them free mentally and physically as well.The only way women can rise is through marriage and people expect them to act as ifthey are children who should just dress well and need to paint themselves. But, Wollstonecraftsays that men should respect them especially their wives who deserve respect from their1
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