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The object of this essay is to discuss two passages from 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) , and to identify in what ways, and to what extent this text is 'modern'. To achieve this, an analysis of the main ideas and arguments of the text will be conducted, together with an attempt to identify ways in which the text responds to the ideas, social circumstances and cultural preoccupations of its own time as well …

…balancing of both the public and private spheres, and in self-identity, negotiating social definitions of what it means to be feminine or masculine. Wollstonecraft's legacy to us is that these issues were raised for public debate in a time when women were extremely oppressed both domestically and in the public arena. That many of these issues are still being debated indicates that the road to genuine equality of the genders has not yet been completed.