... . He went directly against the authority of the church by claming that only true communion with God would take place by individual study of the Scriptures. After many years of bloody struggle, Protestantism was accepted by the populace (grudgingly by the Vatican) and in effect, gave a new freedom to women. Because of Luther's insistence on individual study of the scriptures, a new ... theory that social constructs might be man-made not God ordained, and could and should change. This line of reasoning is evident in A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft: " that is she...

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