Mary Wollstonecraft
An early liberal feminist who argued that women are rational beings deserving of the same education and rights as men, challenging the exclusion of women from liberal principles.
Real World
Wollstonecraft's argument that women's apparent inferiority was the product of poor education, not nature, directly prefigured later campaigns like the 1869 opening of Girton College, Cambridge — the first residential college for women in England.
Exam Focus
Examiners expect you to place Wollstonecraft within liberalism and feminism — always identify her as both, not just one tradition.
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