Equal Rights of Woman

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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was considered by many to be the first feminist philosopher (Clark and Poortenga 2003). Wollstonecraft like many others philosophers of the sixteenth and seventeenth century rejected the constraints of unquestioned tradition and spurious authority. Wollstonecraft focus was on the traditional ethical and social understanding of that of a woman and applies her theory to that of the other part of the human race “The Woman.” Wollstonecraft participated in the Age of the “Enlightenment” Mary found that the thinkers of this time believed that only men were capable or reason (Clark and Poortenga 2003). Wollstonecraft attended meetings that shared the idea of men rights and she found that these meetings were just that “men’s rights” and not that of a woman. She also found that men believed that women were irrational and men only were endowed with those natural rights to liberty and pursuit of happiness. This made Wollstonecraft very unhappy that the “Enlightenment” male thinkers promised to only to degrade women as a person and continue to oppress them as memb...

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