Mary Wollstonecraft's argument that women possess the same rational capacities as men and are entitled to the same rights, and that their apparent inferiority results from defective education.
Applies Enlightenment rationalism to women: rational autonomy grounds rights, women are rational, therefore women have equal rights. Argues for coeducational national schools as the institutional means of women's rational development.
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