<P> Wollstonecraft was prompted to write the Rights of Woman after reading Charles Maurice de Talleyrand - Périgord 's 1791 report to the French National Assembly , which stated that women should only receive a domestic education ; she used her commentary on this specific event to launch a broad attack against sexual double standards and to indict men for encouraging women to indulge in excessive emotion . Wollstonecraft wrote the Rights of Woman hurriedly to respond directly to ongoing events ; she intended to write a more thoughtful second volume but died before completing it . </P>
<P> Wollstonecraft was prompted to write the Rights of Woman after reading Charles Maurice de Talleyrand - Périgord 's 1791 report to the French National Assembly , which stated that women should only receive a domestic education ; she used her commentary on this specific event to launch a broad attack against sexual double standards and to indict men for encouraging women to indulge in excessive emotion . Wollstonecraft wrote the Rights of Woman hurriedly to respond directly to ongoing events ; she intended to write a more thoughtful second volume but died before completing it . </P>
what historical event inspired wollstonecraft 's book a vindication of the rights of woman
what historical event inspired wollstonecraft 's book a vindication of the rights of woman
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand - Périgord 's 1791 report to the French National Assembly , which stated that women should only receive a domestic education
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand - Périgord 's 1791 report to the French National Assembly , which stated that women should only receive a domestic education