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jessmbark's review against another edition
This work is best explored in an academic context. Without that, or anyone to discuss this with in person, I find more contemporary and intersectional feminist works much more engaging. This is a seminal work, so I feel bad for not finishing it, but I also feel like I am sloughing through it for no real reason other than to say "I read this."
is_book_loring's review against another edition
4.0
It was passionate, bold, written with the force of clear rationality and sharp observation. Mary Wollstonecraft proposed a series of arguments to the importance and right of equal education for women as rational creatures with civic duties, urging a revolution in female manner that will lead to moral improvement of all mankind.
"Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtuous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the justice which one half of the human race are obliged to submit to, retorting on their oppressors, the virtue of man will be worm-eaten by the insect whom he keeps under his feet."
"Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtuous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the justice which one half of the human race are obliged to submit to, retorting on their oppressors, the virtue of man will be worm-eaten by the insect whom he keeps under his feet."
keoken's review
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
Honestly, Wollstonecraft's work was an intense read. Given the context of her time, the way she writes refects the frustrations she had ( which was truly felt). The book is a testament of how far ahead she was of her time, most of her ideas and proposals are things that are now normalized.
The only qualm I had ( reading the book at a very objective view) is on her views about education and how she felt that women should be educated because they need education to raise children (this is not verbatim but a notion she made in the book), whilst that is true, for me, women should be educated because they're also human beings just as men are. They shouldnt be given education just because of their abilities to become mothers- (and this is just me giving out my thoughts)
Despite it all, Wollstonecraft's was a child of her time and I completely understand why she presented her ideas as she did. Overall she was a badass woman and she remains an exemplary custodian of feminism and why writing and getting your work ( your ideas) out there is so important.
The only qualm I had ( reading the book at a very objective view) is on her views about education and how she felt that women should be educated because they need education to raise children (this is not verbatim but a notion she made in the book), whilst that is true, for me, women should be educated because they're also human beings just as men are. They shouldnt be given education just because of their abilities to become mothers- (and this is just me giving out my thoughts)
Despite it all, Wollstonecraft's was a child of her time and I completely understand why she presented her ideas as she did. Overall she was a badass woman and she remains an exemplary custodian of feminism and why writing and getting your work ( your ideas) out there is so important.
catarolo's review against another edition
It was honestly just very very hard to understand