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.

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.

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)

In which century did Mary Wollstonecraft live?

• 18th

• 20th

• 19th

• 17th

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

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

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

• Vindication

• Vindacation

• Vindecation

• Vindicashon