Throughout Mary Wollstonecraft’s life, she can always be considered a feminist throughout her time who fought for woman’s rights and vital voices to be heard. More-so, she was mainly focused on the aspect that all woman should have a right to education. She wanted woman to have more of an opportunity to take charge instead of being someone who is always being demanded and told what to do in society by men. The letter was directed to M. Talleyrand-Périgord , a former Bishop of Autun, where she is trying to gather his attention to modify the French constitution and to implement ‘A Vindication of the Rights Of Women’ , just as they did for the men. She is solely writing this letter to fight for woman’s education and their right to have a role in society bigger than what men kept perceiving woman as they should be. She ensured she didn’t want herself and other woman to ever live in a patriarchy society so she wished upon her beliefs into this letter to state her opinion. She finds the idea of a patriarchal society to not only be a burden, but it stops woman from facing their individuality and not having the ability to have their own virtues/voice. It’s not moral that woman have to succumb to such ways of living, and she strongly urges that woman should be able to fight for their freedom and to never degrade them just for their gender. Additionally, she is pushing the idea that men should be more aware that they can’t expect woman to sit there and complete stereotypical tactics, she demands justice for all women. Wollstonecraft’s discourse community she is in would be considered like a ‘Woman’s Movement’ and/or ‘Feminist Movement’ , because she is retaliating the idea that men should only have power and education. However, the discourse community that she is reaching out to is the opposite and is outside of it, since she is essentially trying to persuade and inform specifically men, that woman should have a vital voice/education.
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Professor: Dr. Ruth G. Garcia
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Office hours: Tuesday 10:30-12:30
This is a course in effective essay writing and basic research techniques, including use of the library. College-level readings are assigned as the basis for classroom discussion and for essay writing.
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