Feminist PhilosopherComparing Mary Wollstonecraft

& Simone de Beauvoir

Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft(1759-1797)

was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and feminist. During her

brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French

Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft is best

known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both men

and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order

founded on reason.

Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir  (1908 –1986), was a

twentieth century French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social

theorist. While she did not consider herself a philosopher, Beauvoir had a significant

influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory. Beauvoir wrote novels, essays, biographies, an autobiography,

monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues. She is best known for her

novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, as well as her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's

oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism.

Similarity: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and

De Beauvoir believed that it is only tradition and social

constraints that put women in an inferior position. Many people at that time accepted the belief that women were born inferior. Their ideas shocked many people but brought inspiration and hope to

millions of women who recognized their own lives in her

writing.

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Leony G. DaisogIII- H BSE Social Studies