Analysis Of Wollstonecraft's A Vindication For The Rights Of Women

Wollstonecraft argues for the rights of women in her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. She opposes that only men can receive education. Women are taught by their mother the knowledge of human weakness, “cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience, and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety” (2.2). They should be beautiful, then men will protect them. Wollstonecraft argues that women focus on being beautiful and stay indoors, they can’t really run reason because they depend on men. Women can’t bear a child well without good education. And they can’t be moral and virtuous without being taught how to be moral and virtuous. The education of women only focused on the good looking

Generally speaking, education is equal for men and women in most of the countries, but not at all, such as some countries in North Africa. In Macau, women and men enter the school together. They receive the same education. Women are not taught by their mother focus on how to be beautiful, weakness, and obedient now, they can have their own thinking. Modern women have the ability to enter the society, even can get the high social status and being influential. Some women are intelligent to do what is considered only men can do. Besides receiving the equal education, some women also become the representatives of the government and present their words to against with other representatives. They have the right to participate in the decision of a state. Moreover, In South Korea and Taiwan, the president is women. We can see that the change of women social status through these 200

In fact, many women have the experience of premarital sex nowadays. According to National Survey of Family Growth in United States, the mean age at first intercourse after menarche for women aged 15-44 was 17.2, the mean age at first intercourse for men aged 15-44 was 16.8 in 2011-2013. Although premarital sex is considered unacceptable in some countries such as Indonesia and Egypt, premarital sex became widely accepted. Another important idea is running reason. Wollstonecraft proposed that women can also run reason as men. They should not be controlled by their emotion. Personally speaking, emotion is still occupying the important position in women’s life. Women have the ability to run reason, but it is hard to be as good as men. Although how strong a woman is, it is still hard to be as strong as a man. In the modern world, there are few of exceptions that women run reason really well. Men still keep the thoughts of letting women being obedient and ignorance in order to control them easier, but women stand up and break these ideas. There are some situations are still valid today, some are not. I am sure that women have developed themselves a lot in these 200 years and will surely develop themselves in the future. Although there is still not totally equal of sex in many aspects, women are still fighting for their