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Introduction
Wollstonecraft states her thesis: women's follies are not natural but produced by a false education that trains them to be pleasing rather than rational — and declares she would rather see women 'masculine,' in the sense of possessing manly virtues, than ornamental.
Neglected education as the source of women's conditionWomen trained to please rather than reasonWollstonecraft's defense of 'masculine' virtues in women