Create a new thread and write a response to one of the following questions:
1. How much have things changed since Wollstonecraft?s day? Are the problems that beset women in the eighteenth century completely solved? Are you surprised at what Wollstonecraft says about the situation of women?
2. The question of what a woman?s duties should be pervades the selection and especially dominates paragraphs 15, 16, and 17. As clearly as possible, clarify what Wollstonecraft feels a woman?s duties are. Do you agree with her views?
3. Ironically, Wollstonecraft died in childbirth. Establish Wollstonecraft?s attitudes toward motherhood, particularly in reference to paragraphs 7 and 16. Have these attitudes changed radically in our time? Do you or your friends share her basic views? By using episodicalobservations, make a case for accepting or rejecting her views.
mary Wollstonecraft (1759?1797). A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. 1792.
Chap. IX. Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society.