Throughout her famous treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft describes in great detail her feminist philosophy. Which of the following statements best describes Wollstonecraft's view concerning women of her time period and rationality?
- God/Nature created men and women differently, and they each have different capacities to reason.
- Only men possess a fully developed faculty of reasoning.
- Women possess the same powers of reasoning as men, however society does not allow women to fully develop their powers of reasoning.
- Since women act primarily as wives and mothers, they should not be taught to develop their powers of reasoning.