Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights, most fully developed in her own political and philosophical writing. She is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, and later feminists have drawn on both her published arguments and the example of her own unconventional life. Her work helped establish the case for women's equal claim to reason and education that later feminist theory built upon. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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BirthplaceSpitalfields, London, England 1 Death PlaceSomers Town, London, England 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionFounding feminist philosopher whose A Vindication of the Rights of Woman argued that women are not naturally inferior to men and lack only equal education, laying groundwork for later feminist theory. 1 Notable WorkA Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) 1 Notable WorkA Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) 1 In the Other Atlases
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Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights.
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Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Born 27 April 1759: Died 10 September 1797.
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27 April 1759
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Spitalfields, London, England
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10 September 1797
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Somers Town, London, England
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Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men but appeared to be only because they lack education.
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to participate in the revolutionary events that she had just celebrated in her recent Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790).
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