Political Science · Western Political Thought
Mary Wollstonecraft is considered a liberal feminist mainly because?
AIn time she came a few centuries before radical feminism came to the forefront ✓ Correct
BShe demanded equal rights for women in both the public and the private domains
CShe accepted the conventional role of women as per the norms of the liberal society of her time
DShe had a narrow focus on bourgeois class women
Correct answer: (A) In time she came a few centuries before radical feminism came to the forefront — Wollstonecraft is classed as a liberal feminist mainly because of when she lived.
Explanation
★Wollstonecraft is classed as a liberal feminist mainly because of when she lived.
★She wrote in the late eighteenth century, long before radical feminism emerged.
★Liberal feminism is the early phase that demands equal rights, education and reason for women.
★In substance she was actually quite radical, urging deep changes in education and society.
★Her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman of 1792 demanded equality and rational education for women.
★She did not accept the conventional female role, but challenged it boldly.
★So the label liberal reflects her early era more than any narrowness of her ideas.
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