A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is what Mary Wollstonecraft is most well known for. It was published in 1792 in response to Talleyrand-Périgord's pamphlet on National Education. She argued for the cultivation of women's education as it would help develop their "virtue." She challenges that because women's education is not as set as men's education, there is more room for problems to arise, and that women cannot struggle for the same knowledge and virtue that men have because they are limited. Showing the time period in which she lived, she did state that men and women have different duties but her overall argument sparked a massive wave of feminism and she is known as one of the first feminists.