a vindication of the rights of women

The author seems most concerned about prevailing attitudes in her time towards women"s what?

Education

define inculcate

instill

define vindication

justification

What 5 things were women sent away to school to learn?

manners, piano-sing- draw, do needlework, and learn a foreign language, running a house.

What does the author say is a result of women striving only to be alluring objects ?

Women are weak and unfit for motherhood

define prerogative

a privilege

The author says that a women should fulfill her responsibility to herself through what?

cultivating her own understanding/education

Wollstonecraft says that the books that have been written for women's improvement have generally done what?

encouraged women to be frivolous

define feign

pretend

define evanescent

quick to disappear

Wollstonecraft suggest that women should submit to

reason and self-respect above all else

What were the 4 ways an unmarried woman could support herself?

servant, nurse, governess, or some similar occupation

Why does Wollstonecraft tell women to be their husband's friends?

she claims beauty will always fade, but friendship lasts

What is one of the authors counterarguments to the idea that women should be educated to please men ?

when men stop paying attention, then women will be left to discontent and bitterness

Think about Wollstonecraft's early education. she most draws from this context when she claims that

women are rational creatures capable of standing alone

Which statement is a counterargument that Wollstonecraft offers to refute opposing standing alone ?

women should strive to be respectable and see pleasing others as a polish to their virtues