Deck 78: Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Question 1

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a political radical, a social critic with a strong egalitarian bent, a distinguished novelist, and one of the great forebears of feminist thought. What she wrote about women's rights and women's situation in society is still relevant today-and still considered radical by many. By law and by custom, middle-class English women in her day were thought to be subordinate to men in countless ways. They lived under the weight of a damaging presumption: women exist for the sake of men. Women were denied property ownership, expected to defer to men in important matters, barred from almost all professions, excluded from voting and government posts, deprived of higher education, and judged by different moral standards than those applied to men. Few societies in the rest of the world treated women any better.
Wollstonecraft studied the conditions in which women found themselves, and she read what prominent men had to say about the character, duties, and education of women. Thus much of her literary output was in response to the views of the famous Edmund Burke, who wrote in support of aristocratic rights and privileges, and to Rousseau, who considered women inferior to men. Her greatest works are A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792).
-Wollstonecraft asserts that men prefer to keep women in ignorance but call this state

A) stupidity.
B) courageous.
C) innocence.
D) genius.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a political radical, a social critic with a strong egalitarian bent, a distinguished novelist, and one of the great forebears of feminist thought. What she wrote about women's rights and women's situation in society is still relevant today-and still considered radical by many. By law and by custom, middle-class English women in her day were thought to be subordinate to men in countless ways. They lived under the weight of a damaging presumption: women exist for the sake of men. Women were denied property ownership, expected to defer to men in important matters, barred from almost all professions, excluded from voting and government posts, deprived of higher education, and judged by different moral standards than those applied to men. Few societies in the rest of the world treated women any better.
Wollstonecraft studied the conditions in which women found themselves, and she read what prominent men had to say about the character, duties, and education of women. Thus much of her literary output was in response to the views of the famous Edmund Burke, who wrote in support of aristocratic rights and privileges, and to Rousseau, who considered women inferior to men. Her greatest works are A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792).
-According to Wollstonecraft, women are told from their infancy and taught by the example of their mothers that a little cunning and outward obedience will obtain for them

A) the protection of man.
B) a good education.
C) men's respect for their intelligence.
D) lasting beauty.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a political radical, a social critic with a strong egalitarian bent, a distinguished novelist, and one of the great forebears of feminist thought. What she wrote about women's rights and women's situation in society is still relevant today-and still considered radical by many. By law and by custom, middle-class English women in her day were thought to be subordinate to men in countless ways. They lived under the weight of a damaging presumption: women exist for the sake of men. Women were denied property ownership, expected to defer to men in important matters, barred from almost all professions, excluded from voting and government posts, deprived of higher education, and judged by different moral standards than those applied to men. Few societies in the rest of the world treated women any better.
Wollstonecraft studied the conditions in which women found themselves, and she read what prominent men had to say about the character, duties, and education of women. Thus much of her literary output was in response to the views of the famous Edmund Burke, who wrote in support of aristocratic rights and privileges, and to Rousseau, who considered women inferior to men. Her greatest works are A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792).
-According to Wollstonecraft, men try to keep women always in a state of

A) adulthood.
B) childhood.
C) equality.
D) sympathy.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a political radical, a social critic with a strong egalitarian bent, a distinguished novelist, and one of the great forebears of feminist thought. What she wrote about women's rights and women's situation in society is still relevant today-and still considered radical by many. By law and by custom, middle-class English women in her day were thought to be subordinate to men in countless ways. They lived under the weight of a damaging presumption: women exist for the sake of men. Women were denied property ownership, expected to defer to men in important matters, barred from almost all professions, excluded from voting and government posts, deprived of higher education, and judged by different moral standards than those applied to men. Few societies in the rest of the world treated women any better.
Wollstonecraft studied the conditions in which women found themselves, and she read what prominent men had to say about the character, duties, and education of women. Thus much of her literary output was in response to the views of the famous Edmund Burke, who wrote in support of aristocratic rights and privileges, and to Rousseau, who considered women inferior to men. Her greatest works are A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792).
-According to Wollstonecraft, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of

A) its own reason.
B) its own body.
C) cunning.
D) justice.

Question 5

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a political radical, a social critic with a strong egalitarian bent, a distinguished novelist, and one of the great forebears of feminist thought. What she wrote about women's rights and women's situation in society is still relevant today-and still considered radical by many. By law and by custom, middle-class English women in her day were thought to be subordinate to men in countless ways. They lived under the weight of a damaging presumption: women exist for the sake of men. Women were denied property ownership, expected to defer to men in important matters, barred from almost all professions, excluded from voting and government posts, deprived of higher education, and judged by different moral standards than those applied to men. Few societies in the rest of the world treated women any better.
Wollstonecraft studied the conditions in which women found themselves, and she read what prominent men had to say about the character, duties, and education of women. Thus much of her literary output was in response to the views of the famous Edmund Burke, who wrote in support of aristocratic rights and privileges, and to Rousseau, who considered women inferior to men. Her greatest works are A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792).
-Wollstonecraft says Rousseau believes that the whole tendency of female education ought to be directed to one point: to render women pleasing.

Question 6

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a political radical, a social critic with a strong egalitarian bent, a distinguished novelist, and one of the great forebears of feminist thought. What she wrote about women's rights and women's situation in society is still relevant today-and still considered radical by many. By law and by custom, middle-class English women in her day were thought to be subordinate to men in countless ways. They lived under the weight of a damaging presumption: women exist for the sake of men. Women were denied property ownership, expected to defer to men in important matters, barred from almost all professions, excluded from voting and government posts, deprived of higher education, and judged by different moral standards than those applied to men. Few societies in the rest of the world treated women any better.
Wollstonecraft studied the conditions in which women found themselves, and she read what prominent men had to say about the character, duties, and education of women. Thus much of her literary output was in response to the views of the famous Edmund Burke, who wrote in support of aristocratic rights and privileges, and to Rousseau, who considered women inferior to men. Her greatest works are A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792).
-According to Wollstonecraft, men recommend as the cardinal virtues of women intelligence, creativity, and wisdom.

Question 7

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a political radical, a social critic with a strong egalitarian bent, a distinguished novelist, and one of the great forebears of feminist thought. What she wrote about women's rights and women's situation in society is still relevant today-and still considered radical by many. By law and by custom, middle-class English women in her day were thought to be subordinate to men in countless ways. They lived under the weight of a damaging presumption: women exist for the sake of men. Women were denied property ownership, expected to defer to men in important matters, barred from almost all professions, excluded from voting and government posts, deprived of higher education, and judged by different moral standards than those applied to men. Few societies in the rest of the world treated women any better.
Wollstonecraft studied the conditions in which women found themselves, and she read what prominent men had to say about the character, duties, and education of women. Thus much of her literary output was in response to the views of the famous Edmund Burke, who wrote in support of aristocratic rights and privileges, and to Rousseau, who considered women inferior to men. Her greatest works are A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792).
-Wollstonecraft asserts that men recommend as the cardinal virtues of women gentleness, docility, and a spaniel-like affection.

Question 8

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a political radical, a social critic with a strong egalitarian bent, a distinguished novelist, and one of the great forebears of feminist thought. What she wrote about women's rights and women's situation in society is still relevant today-and still considered radical by many. By law and by custom, middle-class English women in her day were thought to be subordinate to men in countless ways. They lived under the weight of a damaging presumption: women exist for the sake of men. Women were denied property ownership, expected to defer to men in important matters, barred from almost all professions, excluded from voting and government posts, deprived of higher education, and judged by different moral standards than those applied to men. Few societies in the rest of the world treated women any better.
Wollstonecraft studied the conditions in which women found themselves, and she read what prominent men had to say about the character, duties, and education of women. Thus much of her literary output was in response to the views of the famous Edmund Burke, who wrote in support of aristocratic rights and privileges, and to Rousseau, who considered women inferior to men. Her greatest works are A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792).
-Wollstonecraft says men think that woman was created to be the toy of man.

Question 9

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a political radical, a social critic with a strong egalitarian bent, a distinguished novelist, and one of the great forebears of feminist thought. What she wrote about women's rights and women's situation in society is still relevant today-and still considered radical by many. By law and by custom, middle-class English women in her day were thought to be subordinate to men in countless ways. They lived under the weight of a damaging presumption: women exist for the sake of men. Women were denied property ownership, expected to defer to men in important matters, barred from almost all professions, excluded from voting and government posts, deprived of higher education, and judged by different moral standards than those applied to men. Few societies in the rest of the world treated women any better.
Wollstonecraft studied the conditions in which women found themselves, and she read what prominent men had to say about the character, duties, and education of women. Thus much of her literary output was in response to the views of the famous Edmund Burke, who wrote in support of aristocratic rights and privileges, and to Rousseau, who considered women inferior to men. Her greatest works are A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792).
-Wollstonecraft advocates a reeducation of men.

Question 10

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a political radical, a social critic with a strong egalitarian bent, a distinguished novelist, and one of the great forebears of feminist thought. What she wrote about women's rights and women's situation in society is still relevant today-and still considered radical by many. By law and by custom, middle-class English women in her day were thought to be subordinate to men in countless ways. They lived under the weight of a damaging presumption: women exist for the sake of men. Women were denied property ownership, expected to defer to men in important matters, barred from almost all professions, excluded from voting and government posts, deprived of higher education, and judged by different moral standards than those applied to men. Few societies in the rest of the world treated women any better.
Wollstonecraft studied the conditions in which women found themselves, and she read what prominent men had to say about the character, duties, and education of women. Thus much of her literary output was in response to the views of the famous Edmund Burke, who wrote in support of aristocratic rights and privileges, and to Rousseau, who considered women inferior to men. Her greatest works are A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792).
-Wollstonecraft advocates a revolution in female manners.

Question 11

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a political radical, a social critic with a strong egalitarian bent, a distinguished novelist, and one of the great forebears of feminist thought. What she wrote about women's rights and women's situation in society is still relevant today-and still considered radical by many. By law and by custom, middle-class English women in her day were thought to be subordinate to men in countless ways. They lived under the weight of a damaging presumption: women exist for the sake of men. Women were denied property ownership, expected to defer to men in important matters, barred from almost all professions, excluded from voting and government posts, deprived of higher education, and judged by different moral standards than those applied to men. Few societies in the rest of the world treated women any better.
Wollstonecraft studied the conditions in which women found themselves, and she read what prominent men had to say about the character, duties, and education of women. Thus much of her literary output was in response to the views of the famous Edmund Burke, who wrote in support of aristocratic rights and privileges, and to Rousseau, who considered women inferior to men. Her greatest works are A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792).
-Wollstonecraft says that although women have preserved their dignity, they have lost some of their beauty.

Question 12

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a political radical, a social critic with a strong egalitarian bent, a distinguished novelist, and one of the great forebears of feminist thought. What she wrote about women's rights and women's situation in society is still relevant today-and still considered radical by many. By law and by custom, middle-class English women in her day were thought to be subordinate to men in countless ways. They lived under the weight of a damaging presumption: women exist for the sake of men. Women were denied property ownership, expected to defer to men in important matters, barred from almost all professions, excluded from voting and government posts, deprived of higher education, and judged by different moral standards than those applied to men. Few societies in the rest of the world treated women any better.
Wollstonecraft studied the conditions in which women found themselves, and she read what prominent men had to say about the character, duties, and education of women. Thus much of her literary output was in response to the views of the famous Edmund Burke, who wrote in support of aristocratic rights and privileges, and to Rousseau, who considered women inferior to men. Her greatest works are A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792).
-According to Wollstonecraft, the most perfect education is one that enables the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render the individual dependent and wise.

Question 13

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a political radical, a social critic with a strong egalitarian bent, a distinguished novelist, and one of the great forebears of feminist thought. What she wrote about women's rights and women's situation in society is still relevant today-and still considered radical by many. By law and by custom, middle-class English women in her day were thought to be subordinate to men in countless ways. They lived under the weight of a damaging presumption: women exist for the sake of men. Women were denied property ownership, expected to defer to men in important matters, barred from almost all professions, excluded from voting and government posts, deprived of higher education, and judged by different moral standards than those applied to men. Few societies in the rest of the world treated women any better.
Wollstonecraft studied the conditions in which women found themselves, and she read what prominent men had to say about the character, duties, and education of women. Thus much of her literary output was in response to the views of the famous Edmund Burke, who wrote in support of aristocratic rights and privileges, and to Rousseau, who considered women inferior to men. Her greatest works are A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792).
-Wollstonecraft says that the follies and caprices of women are a direct result of ignorance inculcated by men.

Question 14

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a political radical, a social critic with a strong egalitarian bent, a distinguished novelist, and one of the great forebears of feminist thought. What she wrote about women's rights and women's situation in society is still relevant today-and still considered radical by many. By law and by custom, middle-class English women in her day were thought to be subordinate to men in countless ways. They lived under the weight of a damaging presumption: women exist for the sake of men. Women were denied property ownership, expected to defer to men in important matters, barred from almost all professions, excluded from voting and government posts, deprived of higher education, and judged by different moral standards than those applied to men. Few societies in the rest of the world treated women any better.
Wollstonecraft studied the conditions in which women found themselves, and she read what prominent men had to say about the character, duties, and education of women. Thus much of her literary output was in response to the views of the famous Edmund Burke, who wrote in support of aristocratic rights and privileges, and to Rousseau, who considered women inferior to men. Her greatest works are A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792).
-Wollstonecraft admits that women do not have sufficient strength of mind to acquire what really deserves the name of virtue.

Question 15

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a political radical, a social critic with a strong egalitarian bent, a distinguished novelist, and one of the great forebears of feminist thought. What she wrote about women's rights and women's situation in society is still relevant today-and still considered radical by many. By law and by custom, middle-class English women in her day were thought to be subordinate to men in countless ways. They lived under the weight of a damaging presumption: women exist for the sake of men. Women were denied property ownership, expected to defer to men in important matters, barred from almost all professions, excluded from voting and government posts, deprived of higher education, and judged by different moral standards than those applied to men. Few societies in the rest of the world treated women any better.
Wollstonecraft studied the conditions in which women found themselves, and she read what prominent men had to say about the character, duties, and education of women. Thus much of her literary output was in response to the views of the famous Edmund Burke, who wrote in support of aristocratic rights and privileges, and to Rousseau, who considered women inferior to men. Her greatest works are A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792).
-Wollstonecraft says that the civilized women of her century, with a few exceptions, are eager to inspire love when they ought to cherish a nobler ambition and thereby gain respect.