PHIL1070 Chapter 17: Study Q 17_
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Wollstonecraft is discussing how society and government is structured in a way that. A vindication of the rights of woman (canvas) pp. If so, to what might this claim also refer? limits the development of women both in both education and welfare. Wollstonecraft might be referencing are how women are considered the weaker sex and usually less intelligent which leads to them getting worse jobs and frequently being treated as men"s property. She explains, [woman] has always been either a slave, or despot meaning that women have always been set back or treated as if they are less worthy of responsibility and respect than men (wollstonecraft 129. This does not include simply education in schools, but the very foundation and evolution of women as human beings. Wollstonecraft"s definition of education is the first step to form a being advancing gradually towards perfection (wollstonecraft 127).
