Women over centuries have been painted with the brush of kind, gentle, and innocent, as if they are trapped in childhood. Even though these are not bad descriptive words, they are not faltering either, they take away from their potential. Wollstonecraft addresses concerns with the depiction of women, as these artificial objects that men possess. She does this in her book A vindication of the Rights of Women, which is the follow up book to Vindication of the Rights of Men. The chapter that will be focused on will be chapter two The prevailing opinion of a sexual character discussed. That raises many questions about the educational rights of women and the lack that women offer within marriages. In Wollstonecrafts perspective marriage is used to articulate the political arena, where women if given the chance can offer so much more than what is exceptive of them. There were wild though in her time Wollston
ecrafts vision of equality was eclipsed by a celebration of exemplary womanhood in collective biographies of women, or women worthies. Wollstonecraft looks beyond her time, she wants to give women an identity more than just wives, daughters and far more than just objects. She wants them to be educated so that they can be true partners to their husbands rather than just an object of amusement. Her main argument is that this is taught to women at a young age and when they become mothers they go on to teach their daughter. While their sons learn of watching their fathers treat their mothers. Wollstonecraft helps her readers understand that at the time of writing when there was talk about human rights there was no talk about women rights they were still being considered inferior. The readers are meant to understand the benefits women can have on society when they are lifted from their standard gender role.