Colonial Life Of A Woman Rhetorical Analysis

One of her most dramatic and radical assertions was to question the role of women as purely domestic beings. The idea that women were intellectually inferior, therefor they performed the least stimulating (though in no way easier) duties of colonial life was an idea she utterly rejected. She argued the opposite-that no one can reasonably expect a woman, who is continually forced to perform the same mundane tasks day after day to have the same intellectual vigor as an even slightly educated man. “Is the needle and kitchen sufficient to employ the operations of a soul..?” page 133. She believed that because women are intellectually equal to men, they should be privy to the same educational opportunities as men. The division of the sexes is something