Mary Wollstonecraft: referente feminista

Abstract

Having been born a man or a woman is still important today in regard to the position you have at home, in politics, and ultimately, in society. Your membership to one or another sex still determines your opportunities, your job and your salary; therefore, Wollstonecraft’s work has full relevance nowadays, and in some ways, her clairvoyance is surprising coming as it does from as early as the 18th century. She rebels against the negation of woman’s intellectual capacities, against the ignorance that is imposed on her and against the impossibility of choosing her own destiny. She is convinced that only with education woman will be independent and her dignity as person will be recognised, and she demands that: dignity, education, respectability, and above all, equality.