1. Mary Wollstonecraft

2. Goddess Figurine Almost all of the earliest figurines that we have found are of female characters, most often pregnant

3. Patriarchy If patriarchy is a result of nurture rather than nature, then it can be changed.

4. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) “I am going to be the first of a new species” Mary Wollstonecraft told her sister Everina.

5. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) She grew up at a time when Lord Kames said that women, “destined by nature to be obedient, ought to be disciplined early to bear wrongs without murmuring.”

6. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman “As an exploration of the feminine, the Vindication is in fact an expose, a startlingly harsh condemnation of modern womankind which has at its central target women’s sexuality.”

7. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Wollstonecraft was not advocating that there should be no differences between men and women, but that what differences there were, were exaggerated by keeping women uneducated.

8. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Both men and women needed to be liberated by the freedom to reason things out and think critically about the traditions that are handed down.

9. Summary Wollstonecraft urged people to free themselves from past prejudices and think in a new and fresh way about how both men and women need each other to reach their potential.