John Clare and Mary Wollstonecraft were both writing at a time of great social upheaval and change. ... Maria's mother, like Wollstonecraft's, had an 'extravagant partiality' for her older brother, (125) and Mary's sister Eliza left her husband and went into hiding, as Maria tried to do. ... (Todd 2) Mary Wollstonecraft is often referred to as a Revolutionary Feminist and this is in part due to her opinion of marriage which she considered, in Maria, an institution 'of society, which ... enable[d] men to tyrannise over women'. (164) Maria's life up...

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The second work that Mary Wollstonecraft does is called, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, which is a collection of essays that grew out of her own experiences with her school during the past three years of her life. ... (Letters 219) In the opinion of Mary Wollstonecraft, attitudes and expectations that perpetuate female weakness are institutionalized by the texts that express masculine assumptions of what feminine behavior should be. ... Mary Wollstonecraft feels that the character of a woman is shaped by her thoughts. ... Largely self-educated, Mary Wollstonecraft went does write ...

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A couple of years later, the Feminism movement increased its importance around the population, by a political theory of Mary Wollstonecraft, "Vindication of the Rights of Women", that was published in 1792. ... Mary Wollstonecraft encouraged the social and moral equality of different genders. ... They followed different perspectives and thoughts, but all of them followed point of view. ... It is linked with what is known as third-wave feminism, now a day. ... In this wave, the feminists focus on ideas such as abolishing gender role expectations, defending sex work, reproductive right...

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Johann Sebastian Bach was a religious German, his music was very unique and people are still listening to it today, even thought it was written over 300 years ago. ... One of the most distinguished and important of these thinkers was Mary Wollstonecraft. She was so important because she created the first feminist document. ... The Enlightenment thinkers notably contributed to making the world what it is today. Their ideas taught us many new things, and inspired us to have our own ideas. ...

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If the Protestant Reformation had not occurred, it is uncertain at what point in time women would have been educated by the thousands. ... The idea of individualism was growing in strength and most philosophers admitted women at least had some capacity for learning and creating thoughts and ideas. ... A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft, appeared two years later, in 1792. ... These two authors were among the first feminists in the modern meaning. ... With the Protestant Reformation and the Enlightenment some injustices were terminated, but more importantly the idea...

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It's powerful dedication to reason and rational thought that until quite recently the era was sometimes characterized as the Age of Reason. The turn toward what became known by 1750 as the Enlightenment began in the late seventeenth century. ... Kant hoped that the call for self-education and critical thought would mean no disruption of the political order. ... There were radical thinkers during the late eighteenth century, such as the American revolutionary Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) who prepared to endorse an immediate political disr...

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History Coursework To What Extent Did The Key Political Ideas Directly Influence Change And Development In Your Chosen Period Of Study? Throughout the 19th and 20th century many political ideas have helped change and shape society, to what it is presently today. The list is endless for what each of these political ideas has achieved. ... The feminist movement can be traced back to the 18th century in the intellectual works of Mary Wollstonecraft. ... Mary Wollstonecraft attacked educational restrictions, condemning them as a way to keep women in a state of ignorance and dependan...

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This has created a different conception of power of the feminist roles resulting in domestic inequality. ... Biased views regarding women of domestic work triggered the feminist revolution of gender discrimination change. ... In society's conventional view, men have and can out-earn women economically based on the norms of what women have always been doing. ... In the sequence of inferiority, men portrayed their power not only towards financial earnings, but in high positions, secluding the thought of any or rarely needed women engagement. ... Feminists and the society have been developi...

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In Fuller's essay "The Great Lawsuit" which she later expanded into Woman in the Nineteenth Century, she produces her insurrectionary thoughts and ideas about the inequality of women. ... The role of women in the nineteenth century was no different from what it had been for centuries before. ... Margaret Fuller was one of the scarce population of women who, during this time in American history took the stage in an attempt to establish the ideology that women as well as men were " two halves of one thought daughters and sons of time; twin exponents of a divine thought" (Fuller 1311). ...

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The hero archetype has survived remarkably intact, but there have been some changes and transitions in the basic idea of heroism and society's view of the hero (Hero's). ... In the modern world of science and thought, such beliefs could not exist, and so a separation in the hero took place: the fictional and non-fictional type heroes (Sabin 12). ... The ancient idea of a hero was exclusively male with few exceptions; those who were female were not as closely associated with heroism or the hero-quest, and were often goddesses or princesses, people who were not representative of the ...

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What is surprising, at least to modern eyes, is that this idea held up for so long, and throughout so many cultures regardless of technology, wealth, or education. ... These ran the gamut from what arguably could be called "political equality" to the more common assignment of value determined only by the ability to bear legitimate children. ... This new philosophy flew in the face of traditional medieval Christian thought, where women were believed to be evil temptresses who lured men into sin. ... [sic] However, when studying the scriptures for themselves, women were shown a different ...

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Mary Shelley began to write Frankenstein in the summer of 1816 and was heavily influenced by the social changes that were making their way across Europe. Shelley was obviously influenced by the idea of Romanticism and the importance of imagination and creativity and people such as her father William Godwin, who was a social and political journalist and mother Mary Wollstonecraft, who was one of the first feminists would have heavily influenced her. ... Science and Industry were moving on, factories and machined changed the way people thought and many people supported the Miller's strike. ...

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