Wollstonecraft and Women
"Is not that government then very defective, and very
unmindful of the happiness of one half of its members
that does not provide for honest, independent women, by
encouraging them to fill respectable stations?”
-Mary Wollstonecraft,
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,
1790
Why does Wollstonecraft consider a government that
ignores the happiness of women defective?
✓ It fails to uphold the social contract.
* It is not honest or respectable.
It fails to provide for a separation of powers.
It is not democratic, but rather tyrannical.

The answer is “it fails to uphold the social contract “
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The government portrayed by the author in her book is the defective government that fails to sustain the rights of the social contract.

Option A is the correct answer.

Who was Wollstonecraft?

Wollstonecraft was a writer who wrote the popularly known book named Vindication of the Rights of Woman which was published in 1790.

The government failed to protect and provide the human rights of women as well as their interest in society which was depicted by Wollstonecraft in her book. She also highlighted that women were also not allowed to work in their interested fields.

Therefore, the government fails to uphold the social contract which is the reason for considering the government to be defective by the author.

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