Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Women's attractiveness Patriarchy

Author

Mary Wollstonecraft

Source

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Genre

Political literature Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1792 1790s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Occupation

Feminist Philosopher Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Polical and Moral Subjects. 1792.

Current Citation

Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and A Vindication of the Rights of Men. Oxford UP, 2009.

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The best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
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This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seemed adequate.

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Time
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De Beauvoir, Simone. Le Deuxieme Sexe [The Second Sex]. Gallimard, 1950, vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 1.

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A state without some means of change is without the means of its own conservation.

Edmund Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Time
1790 1790s 18th century
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Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

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