(Abbey, “Back to the Future: Marriage as Friendship in the Thought of Mary Wollstonecraft,” 79) List 1 point of your opinion, supported by one of your sources which proves this sub-argument.Īlthough marriage appears to be sacred, women in society would be deemed to be prostitutes somewhere along the continuum it was merely a question of degree as to how much a woman sold herself to one man, and how much she relied on him for support. She argued for an end to social prejudice against women which would, in turn, lead to women’s being defined by their character and work rather than by their marriages and social status. Wollstonecraft argued what may well be her most famous line, “To marry for support is legal prostitution.” She contended for intellectual companionship and friendship to be the ideal of marriage. Paraphrase one piece of information from your sources which proves this sub-argument. Women would not then marry for a support, as men accept of places under government, and neglect the implied duties nor would an attempt to earn their own subsistence, a most laudable one! Sink them almost to the level of those poor abandoned creatures who live by prostitution.” (Wollstonecraft, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” 222)
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