"Their Mind Are Not in a Healthy State" - A Very Short Summary about Marry Wollstonecraft's Work
Summary from a Mary Wollstonecraft «A Vindication of the Rights of Woman » (1792) excerpt.
Excerpt taken from Estelle B. Freedman’s « The Essentialist Feminist Reader » (2007)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 -1797) is probably one of the most famous feminist in nowadays feminists’ movements. She embodies a radical view about women’s rights and especially about women’s empowerment.
Support of the French Revolution, she had a true fondness for the Enlightenment critique. But she deplored that this critique only apply to men and not to women. Thus, she extended it to be applicable for both men and women. Consequently, her theories were all aimed to find what could deliver women from men’s authority.
As a people from the eighteen century, she conceives that there is biological differences between men and women. Indeed, she explains that men are more likely to be strength than women. But she also points out that women’s mind can be as toughness as men’s mind. Unfortunately, educational habits for women enfeeble them to false refinement. In this way, she declares that “their mind are not in a healthy state”. Rather than being learned, women are instruct to act like a child. They are urge to marry a man and have children without being able to raise children or govern a family so they can be dominate by their husband. Mary Wollstonecraft endeavors women to cease being childish and endorse their duties, namely act like “rational creatures” and became a virtuous woman and an accomplish citizen and mother.
Hence, Mary Wollstonecraft seems to operate the same call for women’s education as her predecessors and contemporaries. But what changed with her is that she didn’t stressed the particular role of women regarding what’s God could have been chosen for them but she stressed the common humanity of women and men. Furthermore, she claimed political rights for women. At her time, she had been suffering from conservatives’ attacks for what they consider as immoral positions but also for her immoral way of life (she had an open affair and even gave birth to a child out of wedlock). However, she became a touchstone in feminism history.
N.B : When I right about what historical figures’ thoughts, I never know which tense I must use. If someone can help me with that, I’ll be really happy to read your advices.
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"Their Minds Are Not in a Healthy State" - A Very Short Summary about Marry Wollstonecraft's Work
Summary from a Mary Wollstonecraft «A Vindication of the Rights of Woman » (1792) excerpt.Excerpt taken from Estelle B. Freedman’s « The Essentialist Feminist Reader » (2007)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 -1797) is probably one of the most famous feminist in nowadays current feminists’ movements. ['Nowadays' is an adverb, so an adjective is better here.] She embodies a radical view about women’s rights and especially about women’s empowerment.
Support of for the French Revolution [I'd revise to 'She supported the French revolution and she had a true fondness...] she had a true fondness for the Enlightenment critique. But she deplored that this critique only applied [apply is present tense, applied is past. Since you used 'deplored' in past tense, 'apply' should be in past tense as well] to men and not to women. Thus, she extended it to be applicable for both men and women. Consequently, her theories were all aimed at finding what could deliver women from men’s authority. [I might revise this to 'Consequently, her theories were all aimed at delivering women from men’s authority.]
As a people from the eighteen century, she conceives that there is biological differences between men and women. Indeed, she explains that men are more likely to be strength strong [strength is a noun, but you need a verb here]than women. But she also points out that women’s minds can be as toughness ['tough is an adjective, 'toughness' is a noun] as men’s minds. Unfortunately, educational habits for women enfeeble them to false refinement. In this way, she declares that “their minds are not in a healthy state”. Rather than being learned taught, women are instructed to act like a child. They are urged to marry a man and have children without being able to raise children or govern a family so they can be dominated by their husband. Mary Wollstonecraft endeavors [I think 'implores' would sound a little more natural than 'endeavors'--we don't usually use 'endeavor' with an object] women to cease being childish and endorse their duties, namely acting like “rational creatures” and became a virtuous woman and an accomplished [add the 'ed' to make it an adjective; 'accomplish' is a verb] citizen and mother.
Hence, Mary Wollstonecraft seems to operate the same call for women’s education as her predecessors and contemporaries. But what changed with her is that she didn’t stressed the particular role of women regarding what’s God could have been chosen for them but she stressed the common humanity of women and men. Furthermore, she claimed political rights for women. At her time, she had been suffering from conservatives’ attacks for what they consider as immoral positions but also for her immoral way of life (she had an open affair and even gave birth to a child out of wedlock). However, she became a touchstone in feminism history.
N.B : When I right about what historical figures’ thoughts, I never know which tense I must use. If someone can help me with that, I’ll be really happy to read your advices [for some reason, we only use the word 'advice' as singular.]
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