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Title: the roots of feminism
Review: I admit that I read this because it's mentioned in the forward to an edition ofPride and Prejudicethat I recently read. I wanted to better understand the context of that novel, and now I see the clear lines from this treatise to Austen's novel.Wollstoncraft argues that women of her era need better education and better goals than simply marrying a good man. Through better education, women and men are improved by having better relationships, better conversations, and are better able to raise children. Written largely as a response to Rousseau'sEmile, she argues that women have more to offer than simply wife and mother, but as fully-functional members of society. She vehemently argues against the idea that women exist only for the entertainment and edification of men.Reading this in a modern context, one has to wonder how far we've actually come.
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