Mary Wollstonecraft And Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Reading chapter 15, I learned about many writers and philosophers that influenced the ground-breaking ideas of the Neo-Classical Era. The people that intrigues me the most were Mary Wollstonecraft and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Wollstonecraft was a pioneer for women’s rights and Rousseau heavily influenced the French Revolution. These two writers stood out to me the most.
Being a woman, I am engrossed in women’s rights. I think that, even to this day, women have always had to fight to be treated equal and so reading some of Wollstonecraft’s work appealed to me. She wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women which introduced women to the idea that men and women are born equal, and that it is the lack of education that makes women “inferior”. She
Being a woman, I am engrossed in women’s rights. I think that, even to this day, women have always had to fight to be treated equal and so reading some of Wollstonecraft’s work appealed to me. She wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women which introduced women to the idea that men and women are born equal, and that it is the lack of education that makes women “inferior”. She