1. Mary Wollstonecraft
Wollstonecraft asserted the innate rights of all mankind, whom she thought victims of a society that assigned people their roles, comforts, and satisfactions according to the false distinctions of class, age, and gender. ... Many other eighteenth-century girls had to endure similar injustices and hardships. ... Wollstonecraft argued that young girls were being robbed of individual rights. ... She rejected the notion that the faculty of reason is exclusively a male attribute. "Who made man the exclusive judge8?" ...
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