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A review by misspalah
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
4.0
“Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.”
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This is one of the first Feminist text and Mary Wollstonecraft is truly ahead of her time. However, I struggled to finish the book. The idea of DNF crossed my mind so many times while reading this book. When I finally finished it, I literally muttered to myself "the writing was so dry". Some of the prose are repetitive and some of her ideas are outdated. I did some summary on what I could comprehend from the book :
1. She just wanted men during her time to treat women as fellow humans.
2. She hated Rousseau's takes on women. Most of her rebuttal literally a direct reply to whatever nonsense spouted by Roosseau. (Pretty sure whatever Roosseau wrote about women is pretty much the same with those INCELS in the internet).
3. She stresses that education is a powerful tool to elevate women. She also added that while education is important, society also should play the part to change the women's roles.
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The only uncomfortable thing I find in this book is Wollstonecraft's is a classist (the assumption of upper class women enjoy more pleasure and will not learn for virtue and most lower class women usually uneducated thus they are not fit to educate their kids which not necessarily true). Hence, some of her statements did come out condescending. Be that as it may, this is a truly a great piece of Feminist literature. Mary Wollstonecraft will be shocked to find that after 2 centuries later, women around the globe are still fighting for gender equality.
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This is one of the first Feminist text and Mary Wollstonecraft is truly ahead of her time. However, I struggled to finish the book. The idea of DNF crossed my mind so many times while reading this book. When I finally finished it, I literally muttered to myself "the writing was so dry". Some of the prose are repetitive and some of her ideas are outdated. I did some summary on what I could comprehend from the book :
1. She just wanted men during her time to treat women as fellow humans.
2. She hated Rousseau's takes on women. Most of her rebuttal literally a direct reply to whatever nonsense spouted by Roosseau. (Pretty sure whatever Roosseau wrote about women is pretty much the same with those INCELS in the internet).
3. She stresses that education is a powerful tool to elevate women. She also added that while education is important, society also should play the part to change the women's roles.
.
.
The only uncomfortable thing I find in this book is Wollstonecraft's is a classist (the assumption of upper class women enjoy more pleasure and will not learn for virtue and most lower class women usually uneducated thus they are not fit to educate their kids which not necessarily true). Hence, some of her statements did come out condescending. Be that as it may, this is a truly a great piece of Feminist literature. Mary Wollstonecraft will be shocked to find that after 2 centuries later, women around the globe are still fighting for gender equality.