Mary Wollstonecraft challenges the education and social expectations that limit women. Her argument for equal education raises a question: who gets the resources to develop the capacities society later claims to value? Compare claims of ability with opportunities to exercise it.

It outranks The Social Contract for a more concrete entry into equality and exclusion. Rousseau offers a broader account of legitimate government. Fifth place rewards a clear challenge to unequal assumptions, while acknowledging that an eighteenth-century argument is not a complete guide to contemporary feminism.

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