The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed
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Wollstonecraft attacks the idea that virtue itself differs by sex, arguing that writers who train women only to please — Rousseau chief among them — condemn women to a permanent, gilded childhood.
Rejection of a separate 'sexual character' for virtueEducation aimed at pleasing men, not reasoningDouble standards for female conductGilded dependence disguised as protection