Reflections on The Vindication of Women By Stephen Davis

As I continued reading and eventually finished Mary Wollstonecraft's book, the feelings that I have is both amazement at the ideas that she put forward and disappointment that she is seemingly incapable of concluding ideas that she has already thoroughly explained. Her ideas on how women deserve an education just as much as and as good as men was an incredible tirade that ought to have been accepted as fact long before Wollstonecraft was ever born. Her denouncement of Rousseau's ideas on the nature of women versus men was extremely entertaining to read while her piece on obedience in the home was vert informative on how she figured that life at the home was and should be. All of this being said, I believe that her book would have greatly benefited if the final few chapters were to be removed entirely. At points she simply repeats concepts that she has already delved into to the point that I wonder if she simply ran out of ideas but needed to fulfill a quota on how long the book was. Another thing that I find intriguing is Wollstonecraft's personal life and how that influenced her work immensely as it is well known that she did not have the greatest experience with men. From a man abandoning her when she became pregnant one begins to see how her work was a reflection of her otherwise tragic life and although it does not take away from her work it makes me wonder how much of it was shaped by her personal history with men and how much was what she felt was right.

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