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?
1. Women wanted equal rights to be able to have some sort of voice in what was going on around them. So the would not feel like they were seating on the sidelines watching.
ReplyDelete2.One meaning of prostitution is the selling of yourself for financial gain. Now that selling does not have to be sex, (but sex is included),it could be time spent with someone, (companionship) maid services, child bearing etc. The reason it was felt like it was legalized prostitution was because they did not get married necessarily for love. The women a lot of times married because they were bought from the parents, for their own financial stability since they could not own anything, and sex was not for their pleasure it was for them to pleasure the man. Like a prostitute.