Question

ead the excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Consider, I address you as a legislator, whether, when men contend for their freedom, and to be allowed to judge for themselves respecting their own happiness, it be not inconsistent and unjust to subjugate women, even though you firmly believe that you are acting in the manner best calculated to promote their happiness? Who made man the exclusive judge, if woman partake with him of the gift of reason? How does this idea enhance Wollstonecraft’s argument? by praising women serving in leadership roles by emphasizing the unhappiness of women servants by criticizing men as intellectually inferior to women by pointing out the legal injustice in the exclusion of women

Answer 1

D

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Answer 2

by pointing out the legal injustice in the exclusion of women

Step-by-step explanation:

In the text, Wollstonecraft says that if men are allowed to fight for their freedom and be allowed to make decisions regarding their own happiness then shouldn't women be able to do the same. She addresses the argument of the legislator's who say that they are fighting for the freedom of women and their happiness as well. She asks why men are only allowed to make these decisions when women are also capable of reasoning just as men do. Here in this argument she points out the legal injustice in excluding women.