The first major work to argue women's rights are simply human rights

Published in 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman argued that women only appeared inferior to men because they were denied education, not because of any natural incapacity. She wrote it during the French Revolution, aiming her argument at Enlightenment thinkers who championed liberty for men while ignoring it for women. It's now considered a founding text of Western feminism.

— Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman — 1792
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