Mary Wollstonecraft’s Rebellion in a Patriarchal Society Through A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Abstract

Throughout this paper the main arguments attempt to investigate Mary Wollstonecraft's views and achievements, documented in the first female rhetorical book entitled A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Mary Wollstonecraft is the first liberal feminist who worked for the benefit of women during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England. In fact, this reformer plied in many ways to raise the debate on women's social, political, religious, and even economic developments. The findings of this research indicated that British women were considered as second class citizens in society and they were factually living under the authority of men in awful silence. Education, too, was unfair to women; they were generally limited to certain commitments out of intellectual subjects. The current study also defined the act of marriage, rape and other complicated issues that inhibited females from public preoccupations. The involvement of women in literature and their turnout upon writing art was confirmedly unsupported by British males in the domain. In the enlightenment age, Mary Wollstonecraft came to reform the British society, and emphasizing on reason she could steer her sex to new directions. Eventually, this investigation concluded that Wolstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman should be considered as the primary source of feminists and thinkers in England.