HUMA 1720 Chapter Notes - Chapter All: Malala Yousafzai, Premarital Sex, Mary Wollstonecraft
12 Jun 2015
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It seems that society at the time expected women to behave according to traditional female roles which saw the as weak and submissive and essentially the property of men. And their value as a human was derived from their appearance and their ability to act as a good mother. I"ll start by giving some relevant background information about mary wollstonecraft to give some context of the circumstances that may have led to her writing this: Mary wollstonecraft was an eighteenth-century english writer born the second of seven children to edward john wollstonecraft and elizabeth dixon. As the oldest of the daughters, she played a pseudo mother role in her family tending to her two sisters and even coming to her mother"s aid by protecting her from her abusive drunken father. Wollstonecraft was largely self-taught and was extremely proud of her education and she would go on to opening a school for girls with her sister.
