Let us then, by way of experiment, suppose that women are allowed to acquire knowledge like men, and that their minds are not habituated to the slavish dependence that makes them become the abject tools of their masters.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Early Modern

Early feminist philosopher

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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1792

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Controversial

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3420/3420-h/3420-h.htm

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