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Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. In her most famous work Mary Wollstonecraft argued that if women were educated in the same way as men they would perform as well.
And that society was wasting its assets by failing to educate them and to offer them the opportunity to work in the same areas as menMen are as much corrupted by being tyrants as women by being subject to them, she pointed out. Women should be trained for the professions and could run businesses and farms.

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Series
The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
People
Annabell James
Keywords
vindication of rights of women
bodleian
gender
mary wollstonecraft
shelley's ghost
shelley
feminism
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 02/12/2010
Duration: 00:03:38

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