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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Wollstonecraft challenges the conditions that deny women cultivated judgment and independence. Her proposals connect rights with education, work and political representation, and they have historical limits of their own.
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Guided course · Module 9 · Lesson 54
Who was left outside the language of rights?
Wollstonecraft and Cugoano challenge the exclusion of women and of enslaved people from equal liberty. What do their arguments demand of education, ownership and public institutions?