A Vindication of the Rights of Women

What were some of the key arguments made in 'Vindication of the Rights of Woman'?

• Encouraging women to prioritize marriage and motherhood, promoting the idea of women's natural submissiveness, and defending the exclusion of women from education.

• Advocating for women's education, challenging traditional gender roles, and criticizing the idea that women are intellectually inferior to men.

• Arguing for women's exclusion from the public sphere, supporting traditional gender roles, and defending the idea of women's intellectual inferiority.

• Promoting women's suffrage, advocating for women's right to property, and challenging the idea of women's domesticity.

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Wollstonecraft compares women to animals in several passages (lines 83–85, lines 179–183). What is she trying to convey with this comparison?

• Women who do not please their husbands are as unattractive as farm animals.

• Women are inherently less physically strong than men.

• Only through education can women achieve the accomplishments that separate humans from animals.

• Husbands treat their wives like animals.

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What have you learned after reading the text, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"?
Type your response in 1-2 sentences. (Open-Ended question)

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In which century did Mary Wollstonecraft live?

• 18th

• 20th

• 19th

• 17th

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What were some of the challenges faced by Mary Wollstonecraft as a female writer?

• Limited access to education, societal expectations of women's roles, and discrimination in the publishing industry.

• Lack of interest in writing among women, lack of creativity, and lack of resources

• Inability to find a publisher, lack of inspiration, and lack of support from family and friends

• Difficulty in finding a mentor, lack of time to write, and lack of access to writing materials

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To what specific works does Wollstonecraft respond in her argument?

• essays in which men denounce women they consider masculine

• educations plan for women written by men

• newspaper articles about education reform

• her own earlier book, Vindication of the Rights of Man

What quality does Wollstonecraft believe is the most important in marriage?

• mutual admiration

• shared intellectual interests

• friendship

• physical attraction

Wollstonecraft said that women’s minds are “like the flowers which are planted in too rich a soil.” She means that women:

• cannot thrive in an educational program designed for men.

• have feminine qualities that make their educated minds even more beautiful.

• will need to be introduced to higher learning in a gradual way.

• are taught skills that make them pleasing but not intellectually strong.

What is a "vindication"?

• a petition

• a defense

• a speech

• a parable

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Mary Wollstonecraft was a feminist writer who wrote A _________ of the Rights of Women. Choose the correct spelling.

• Vindication

• Vindacation

• Vindecation

• Vindicashon

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