What was the primary argument advanced by Mary Wollstonecraft in 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792)?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. women should receive rational education
- Step 1: Wollstonecraft argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear so only because they are denied educational opportunities. She advocated for equal, rational education for girls and boys, maintaining that educated women are essential to moral families and just societies. Answer: women should receive rational education. Why not the others: "women must avoid all public life and books" is the patriarchal chauvinism that Wollstonecraft passionately dedicated her treatise to refuting; "men alone possess reasoning capabilities" diametrically opposes her core Enlightenment assertion that all human beings share rational capacities; "all schools should be strictly abolished" is an absurd anti-education claim; Wollstonecraft strongly championed universal coeducational schools.
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