Wollstonecraft's A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman

Women in the later eighteenth century did not have their own identity, did not have equal education to that of men or social status as a result of patriarchy and socialization. In Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” she critiques Milton and his understanding of female nature when she says, “Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness…will obtain for them the protection of men…we were beings only designed by sweet attractive grace” (Black 105). She argues that females are socialized into thinking they are weaker than men, whereas Milton argues that women are naturally weaker than men. She also suggests that generations before women aid in the social