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Mary Wollstonecraft. Goddess Figurine. Almost all of the earliest figurines that we have found are of female characters, most often pregnant. Patriarchy. If patriarchy is a result of nurture rather than nature, then it can be changed. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797).
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Goddess Figurine • Almost all of the earliest figurines that we have found are of female characters, most often pregnant
Patriarchy • If patriarchy is a result of nurture rather than nature, then it can be changed.
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) • “I am going to be the first of a new species” Mary Wollstonecraft told her sister Everina.
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) • She grew up at a time when Lord Kames said that women, “destined by nature to be obedient, ought to be disciplined early to bear wrongs without murmuring.”
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman • “As an exploration of the feminine, the Vindication is in fact an expose, a startlingly harsh condemnation of modern womankind which has at its central target women’s sexuality.”
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman • Wollstonecraft was not advocating that there should be no differences between men and women, but that what differences there were, were exaggerated by keeping women uneducated.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman • Both men and women needed to be liberated by the freedom to reason things out and think critically about the traditions that are handed down.
Summary • Wollstonecraft urged people to free themselves from past prejudices and think in a new and fresh way about how both men and women need each other to reach their potential.
