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| How long was Mary Wollstonecraft alive? |
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| What argument did Wollstonecraft launch in her essay A Vindication of the Rights of Men? |
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| A powerful for argument inalienable human rights. |
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| Wollstonecraft relied on rational principles to attack what, in her essay A Vindication of the Rights of Men? |
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| Justifications for traditional privilege and power. |
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| In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, what did Wollstonecraft argue? |
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| Marriage was no better than prostitution, and that education and unequal laws for women at the time subjected them to a condition similar to slavery. |
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| Wollstonecraft was widely mocked in her own lifetime for what? |
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| In the 1960s Wollstonecraft became known as what? |
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| Wollstencraft's reputation was hurt after her death due to what? |
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| Information emerging that she has a child from wedlock. |
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| What is another part of Wollstencraft's legacy? |
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| Her only legitimate child of Wollstencraft and fellow radical writer William Godwin, grew up to write Frankenstein. |
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| Who's ideas about human equality and freedom inspired many revolutionaries? |
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| What Scottish physician wrote an influential book on educating girls? |
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