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Mary Wollstonecraft: Rights of Women: 3 key ideas
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- IDEA 1 OF 3
Reason belongs to all
Wollstonecraft argued that women seem less capable only because they are denied education.
Given equal schooling, they would show equal reason.
- IDEA 2 OF 3
Education as equality
She called for national education open to both sexes.
Equality starts in the classroom.
- IDEA 3 OF 3
Virtue needs independence
People cannot be truly good if they are dependent and powerless.
Independence is a moral, not only economic, issue.
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