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Thursday, 28 April 2011
Woman of the week - Mary Wollstonecraft
27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797
This week for Woman of the week we celebrate the birth on 27 April 1759 of pioneering British feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft. In her 1792 book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman she argued that women had the same ability to reason as men and deserved the same rights. She said women are not inferior to men but only appear to be because they lack education.
Although she was writing for 18th century readers her powerful assertions still ring true today: "Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority."
More than 200 years later we are still fighting to achieve her vision of an equal society.
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