The inferior sex?
Kevin Schofield asks whether Mary Wollstonecraft’s fight for equality has now been won
Mary Wollstonecraft, an eighteenth century dissenter and staunch pioneer of women’s liberation, fought against the exploitation and subordination of women by men.
In 1792 she published her book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. It was not a well-received work, and many people at the time thought her book had dropped from the press as a silent and still-born child, a lamentable thing to be swiftly buried and forgotten. But Mary’s brainchild was not destined to be buried and forgotten. Even today, her words still resonate with revolutionary inspiration and power.
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