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EH 208:Mary Wollstonecraft:Vindication
EH 208:Mary Wollstonecraft:Vindication
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Undergraduate 2
01/09/2016

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How long was Mary Wollstonecraft alive?
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From 1759 to 1797
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What argument did Wollstonecraft launch in her essay A Vindication of the Rights of Men?
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A powerful for argument inalienable human rights.
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Wollstonecraft relied on rational principles to attack what, in her essay A Vindication of the Rights of Men?
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Justifications for traditional privilege and power.
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In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, what did Wollstonecraft argue?
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Marriage was no better than prostitution, and that education and unequal laws for women at the time subjected them to a condition similar to slavery.
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Wollstonecraft was widely mocked in her own lifetime for what?
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Her political views
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In the 1960s Wollstonecraft became known as what?
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The founder of feminism
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Wollstencraft's reputation was hurt after her death due to what?
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Information emerging that she has a child from wedlock.
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What is another part of Wollstencraft's legacy?
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Her only legitimate child of Wollstencraft and fellow radical writer William Godwin, grew up to write Frankenstein.
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Who's ideas about human equality and freedom inspired many revolutionaries?
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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What Scottish physician wrote an influential book on educating girls?
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John Gregory
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