Mary Wollstonecraft

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  1. Hello, Professor. My name is Francisco. Um and here is my presentation.
  2. I'm Mary Wollstonecraft.
  3. Mhm.
  4. All right, so Mary Wollstonecraft was born on April 27,
  5. in London, England. She was the second of seven Children.
  6. Her dad did not support her and her sisters
  7. or his sister's emotionally or financially,
  8. as he was an alcoholic. And her mom was submissive.
  9. Um,
  10. at the time, you know, parents,
  11. fathers who say we're not spending money on their kids.
  12. Um, especially not spending money on their Children that were females.
  13. And so the money that this father did have
  14. was spent on the son's education.
  15. The son's well being and very little was spent on Mary and her sisters.
  16. Um and so she at a young age, she wasn't very educated.
  17. And even then, the schools for women, um wasn't top notch. Wasn't equal to what,
  18. you know, the education was for men.
  19. And so, um, she wasn't at least when she started off.
  20. Wasn't very well educated when she was young,
  21. um,
  22. Her mother went in and died in 17.80. Um, and that's when she decided to leave.
  23. That's when there was enough for her
  24. So she got her sister and she got her best friend
  25. from from their family and she decided to leave.
  26. So yeah, upon leaving,
  27. she convinced her sister Eliza Wollstonecraft and her friend Frances blood,
  28. to leave their husbands and their households
  29. together. They created a girls only school.
  30. This allowed them to continue their passion of female advocacy and feminism,
  31. right, while also providing means of living, you know, salary and whatnot,
  32. while also also
  33. posing of that feminism and teaching young girls. And it was a win win for all of them.
  34. It was very, you know, it was very, um
  35. It was very prosperous at the time.
  36. There hadn't really nothing been anything like that at
  37. the time in the 17th or 18th century.
  38. Mhm.
  39. However, her friend did leave the school. She got married.
  40. She also had a kid in 10 days after she died.
  41. Um,
  42. and and that was that was devastating for Mary and her sister.
  43. As they did have to close the school,
  44. it was no longer running without her.
  45. Mhm.
  46. Following this, she left. She decided to go off and live on her own.
  47. Where she did, um, find work after the after the school.
  48. But it wasn't it wasn't the same, you know.
  49. She never she never wanted to work for somebody else.
  50. She knew her true passion was women.
  51. Um, and women's rights and education. And that's that's when she started.
  52. The vindication
  53. are the rights of women.
  54. This main purpose of this work was to emphasize that women have more
  55. offer than just child caring and responsibilities around the house And even,
  56. even,
  57. you know, the conditioning by men.
  58. Mary believed
  59. that women were much more capable of just those those three things.
  60. And so that's when she created this piece and at the time was very controversial.
  61. Um,
  62. you know, men didn't Obviously, men did not like that.
  63. Even some women decided, you know? Hey, I like you know, I like what I'm doing,
  64. but Mary Mary said no.
  65. That as women, there is more to life than just this.
  66. So rather,
  67. if women were rather if women are
  68. granted equal opportunities in education like men,
  69. they would be able to succeed outside of the home
  70. and create their own character to live as rational beings.
  71. Okay?
  72. Yeah.
  73. Yeah.
  74. So her philosophy Wilson craft was a radical and political philosopher.
  75. She believed that reason in quality for women would not only
  76. benefit women but men and the society as a collective,
  77. you know,
  78. allowing women to prosper and education and getting out of just the
  79. duties of a home taker and the child taker would help everybody.
  80. Um,
  81. and it was not fair, you know, as she believed.
  82. You know,
  83. as a woman she would just stay home and not
  84. engage in her mind in her in her intelligence.
  85. And that was limiting.
  86. I was limiting her and other women, and they were just taking that out on their kids.
  87. And so she believed that women are more than that. Women deserve more than that.
  88. And she was. Obviously, she was a big feminist,
  89. as we can see in her writings.
  90. So in conclusion, she advocated for women's rights. Um, equal rights
  91. and opportunities. In school, she was a radical rationalist. And feminists,
  92. as we can see in her writings,
  93. in her philosophy.
  94. Yeah.
  95. And he raised my We're excited.
  96. Thank you.