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Course: AP??/College US History?>?Unit 3
Lesson 5: The influence of revolutionary idealsSocial consequences of revolutionary ideals
Problem
Read the passage below and answer the following question.
“I will allow that bodily strength seems to give man a natural superiority over woman; and this is the only solid basis on which the superiority of the sex can be built. But I still insist that not only virtue but the knowledge of the two sexes should be the same in nature, if not in degree, and that women, considered not only as moral but rational creatures, ought to endeavour to acquire human virtues (or perfections) by the same means as men, instead of being educated like a fanciful kind of half being— one of Rousseau’s wild chimeras.”
-Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792
Which of the following events best represents a continuity of the sentiments expressed in the excerpt?