...useful," woman must have full protection of the law and must avoid total dependence on her husband, "for how can a being be generous who has nothing of its own? or virtuous, who is not free?" (216—17). Family duties, including motherhood, do not constitute a reason for denying women liberty;...

...dependent on her husband's bounty for her subsistence during his life, or support after his death — for how can a being be generous who has nothing of its own? or virtuous, who is not free?" (RW 216-17). JJR: "If I were sovereign, I would permit sewing and the needle trades only to women and...

...stressed women's native capability and competence and offered these as preconditions of citizenship. "How can a being be generous who has nothing of its own? or virtuous who is not free?" asked Wollstonecraft. Murray offered model women who sustained themselves by their own efforts, including...

...dependent on her husband's bounty for her subsistence during his life, or support after his death — for how can a being be generous who has nothing of its own? or virtuous, who is not free? In order to render women's 'private virtue a public benefit', Wollstonecraft argued, women needed 'a...

...depend upon her husband's bounty for her subsistence during his life, or support after his death; for how can a being be generous who has nothing of its own/ or virtuous who is not free...? Structurally the family and the community mediates between the 'individual woman' and the state. An...

...dependant on her husband's bounty for her subsistence during his life, or support after his death — for how can a being be generous who has nothing of its own? Or virtuous, who is not free?"54 She even went so far as to suggest that women obtain political rights, although she was aware...

...dependent on her husband's bounty for her subsistence during his life, or support after his death — for how can a being be generous who has nothing of its...own? or virtuous, who is not free? The wife, in the present state of things, who is faithful to her husband, and neither suckles nor educates her children,...

...dependent on her husband's bounty for her subsistence during his life, or support after his death' - for 'how can a being be generous who has nothing of its own? or virtuous, who is not free?'77 Women's economic dependence underpins men's arbitrary rule; even more damagingly, it disallows...

...dependent on her hufband's bounty for her fubfiftence during his life, or fupport after his death — for how can a being be generous who has nothing of its...the prefent ftate of things, who is faithful to her hufband, and neither fuckles nor educates her children, fcarcely deierves the name of a wife, and has...