Discusses the classical works of several female writers. Describes the treatment of women during that time compared to the treatment of men. References the works of Mary Wollstonecraft and Laura Cereta.
Mary Wollstonecraft, like so many of her contemporaries in the 18th century, appealed to reason. She was a philosopher, full of ideas and much of the political optimism of the era that would push for change, and it only naturally follows that her chosen mode of expression would be prose. In Vindication of the Rights of Woman her mastery of rhetoric and the art of essay writing is clear. Her ideas are well grounded in the concept of democracy, which fueled both the French and American Revolutions of the time.
