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=== Wollstonecraft ===
{{Main|Mary Wollstonecraft}}

The period in which [[Mary Wollstonecraft]] wrote was affected by [[Rousseau]] and the philosophy of the [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]]. The father of the Enlightenment defined an ideal democratic society that was based on the equality of men, where women were often discriminated against. The inherent exclusion of women from discussion was addressed by both Wollstonecraft and her contemporaries.  Wollstonecraft based her work on the ideas of Rousseau.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Reuter|first=Martina|year=2017|title=Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mary Wollstonecraft on the imagination|doi=10.1080/09608788.2017.1334188|journal=British Journal for the History of Philosophy|volume=25|issue=6|pages=1138–1160|doi-access=free}}</ref> Although at first it seems to be contradictory, Wollstonecraft's idea was to expand Rousseau's democratic society but based on [[gender equality]]. Mary Wollstonecraft spoke boldly on the inclusion of women in the public lifestyle; more specifically, narrowing down on the importance of female education.<ref name=":02">{{Cite journal|last=Ferguson|first=Susan|date=1999|title=The Radical Ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft|journal=Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique|volume=32|issue=3|pages=427–450|doi=10.1017/S0008423900013913|jstor=3232731|s2cid=155011861 |issn=0008-4239|url=https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/14637867 }}</ref> She took the term 'liberal feminism' and devoted her time to breaking through the traditional gender roles.<ref name=":02" />

Wollstonecraft published one of the first feminist treatises, ''[[A Vindication of the Rights of Woman]]'' (1792), in which she advocated the social and moral equality of the sexes, extending the work of her 1790 pamphlet, ''[[A Vindication of the Rights of Men]]''. Her later unfinished novel, ''[[Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman|Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman]]'', earned her considerable criticism as she discussed women's sexual desires. She died young, and her widower, the philosopher [[William Godwin]], quickly wrote [[Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman|a memoir of her]] that, contrary to his intentions, destroyed her reputation for generations.

Wollstonecraft is regarded as the "fore-mother" of [[Feminist history in the United Kingdom|the British feminist movement]] and her ideas shaped the thinking of the [[suffragette]]s, who campaigned for the women's vote.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Tauchert|first1=Ashley|title=Mary Wollstonecraft and the Accent of the Feminine|url=https://archive.org/details/marywollstonecra00tauc|url-access=limited|date=2002|publisher=Palgrave|location=New York|isbn=978-0-230-28735-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/marywollstonecra00tauc/page/n14 5]}}</ref>

[[File:8marta.jpg|thumb|upright|right|A 1932 Soviet poster for [[International Women's Day]]: "Day of the uprising of female workers against kitchen slavery".]]
[[File:Louise Weiss.jpg|thumb|right|[[Louise Weiss]] along with other Parisian suffragettes in 1935. The newspaper headline reads, in translation, "THE FRENCH WOMAN MUST VOTE".]]