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While Wollstonecraft does call for equality between the sexes in particular areas of life, such as morality, she does not explicitly state that men and women are equal. Wollstonecraft wrote the Rights of Woman hurriedly in order to respond directly to ongoing events she intended to write a more thoughtful second volume, but she died before she was able to complete it. Wollstonecraft was prompted to write the Rights of Woman in response to Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord's 1791 report to the French National Assembly which stated that women should only receive a domestic education she used her commentary on this specific event to launch a broad attack against sexual double standards and to indict men for encouraging women to indulge in excessive emotion. Instead of viewing women as ornaments to society or property to be traded in marriage, Wollstonecraft maintains that they are human beings deserving of the same fundamental rights as men. She argues that women ought to have an education commensurate with their position in society and then proceeds to redefine that position, claiming that women are essential to the nation because they educate its children and because they could be "companions" to their husbands, rather than mere wives. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to the educational and political theorists of the eighteenth century who wanted to deny women an education. Template:Infobox Book Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is one of the earliest works of feminist literature or philosophy. Please remove after the page is dewikified.

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