Life & Background
In what year was Mary Wollstonecraft born?
What is 1759?
What is Wollstonecraft’s most famous book?
What is A Vindication of the Rights of Woman?
Wollstonecraft believed women should cultivate what to achieve independence?
What is Reason?
Wollstonecraft was an Enlightenment thinker influenced by which major event?
What is The French Revolution?
Wollstonecraft is considered a pioneer of what movement?
Feminism
Name one job Wollstonecraft held before becoming a famous writer.
Vindication argued for women’s equality in what key area?
What is Education?
What did she argue was the central solution to women’s subjugation?
What is Education?
What Enlightenment principle did she apply to women?
What is Liberty and Rights?
Her ideas influenced which later social movement?
What is The Women's Rights Movement?
What personal experience shaped her views on women’s roles?
What is seeing girls be trained to be decorative or dependent?
Which Enlightenment ideal strongly influenced her writing?
What is Reason?
What did she think of “feminine virtues” like submissiveness?
What societal view of women did she challenge?
What is that they were decorative beings?
Why did she believe educating women benefits society?
What is it creates moral excellence and independence?
Which city’s radical intellectual circle did she join?
What is London?
What was her main criticism of women being seen as “decorative beings”?
What is It made them artificial and dependent?
Why did she see women as “subordinate beings”?
What is they were valued for beauty and charm, but not intellect?
What did she see as a source of tyranny in society?
What is Women's Subordination?
How did she think women’s dependence harmed both sexes?
What is It undermined relationships and human development
What year did Mary Wollstonecraft die?
What is 1797?
What did Wollstonecraft believe true dignity comes from?
What is Reason and Strength?
What two qualities did she say women need to become true companions and citizens?
What is Reason and Strength?
What intellectual movement was she part of in London?
What was her ultimate vision for women in society?
What is full independent citizens and true companions?