Question

What central idea does wollstonecraft explicitly state in this passage? a lack of education will not make women care only about household issues. women are naturally interested only in domestic concerns. men do not take into account how cunning and tricky women can be. men and women are equally capable of logic and reason?

Answer 1

A lack of education will not make women care only about household issues.

Answer 2

The correct answer is A), a lack of education will not make women care only about household issues.

English writer Mary Wollstonecraft(1759-1797), was considered one of the first feminist as she always supported women's equality. She wrote a famous book on the topic called “Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, which made her a woman’s rights activist.

The concepts in her book created controversy because they were revolutionary for those years. For instance, in her book “Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman”, she declares that women had strong sexual desires and those desires not need to be suppressed.