Written in response to a French report that argued that women should be given only domestic education, Rights of Woman attacks sexual double standards and posits that women should be given. She asserted that the “so called feminine attributes” such as love for fashion and jewellery, are indoctrinated by society, such that women come to assimilate these values in order to fit into the category of the “feminine”. Thus women consented to feminine roles and to their own subordination. Being one of the pioneers who radically deviated from the concept of femininity as natural/biological to the view of femininity as social, Wollstonecraft observed that the social norms, values, law and cultural practices demanded, imposed and recommended particular forms of behaviour from women and not conforming to these norms resulted in their being treated as witches or monsters. Influenced by European Enlightenment, Mary Wollstonecraft’s seminal work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) questioned the socialising process in the subordination of women. The 18th century British writer Mary Wollstonecraft‘s advocacy of women’s equality and critiques of conventional feminity have been significant in the development of feminism. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Contribution to Feminism
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