Wednesday, May 11, 2011

CDL: France, Britain and Women's Rights in the 1790s


This article is about when woman’s rights started becoming a major issue. Women from France and Britain wanted to be treated equally with men. Women didn’t have the right to vote and couldn’t attend school. Men didn’t think that it was right for women to have rights. They thought that women should just stay home and take care of the children while they further their education and work for a living. Mary Wollstonecraft traveled to England and there she published a book entitled “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” and shortly after women started to speak out their opinions on the subject. After all the debates, men started to be in support of women’s rights, to be equal with men. This subject was very controversial and it took about forty years for women to finally have equal rights as men.

Why did women want to be equal to men?
Why did Mary Wollstonecraft call marriage legalized prostitution?