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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Chapter 6 Summary & Analysis | LitCharts

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Given that women are educated so inadequately, and occupy a subordinate state in society, is it any wonder, Wollstonecraft asks, “that women everywhere appear a defect in nature?” She argues that this has largely to do with the effect of “early associations of ideas…on the character.” While her contemporaries have argued that women’s subordinate status is due to their inferiority, Wollstonecraft turns these arguments on their head, arguing that women’s apparent inferiority is due to the failings of society. These failings begin to impact them in the earliest stages of life. Active Themes…

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