Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

However with the emergence of the feminist movement at the turn of the twentieth century Wollstonecraft's advocacy of women's equality and critiques of conventional femininity became increasingly important. : /ˈwʊlstən. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) in which Mary Wollstonecraft argues that women are not naturally inferior to men but appear to be only because they lack education.