On the Equality of the Sexes, by Judith Sargent Murray

In this groundbreaking 1791 essay, published a year before Wollstonecraft’s "Vindication of the Rights of Woman", Judith Sargent Murray claims that men are not intellectually and spiritually superior to women. The essay proposes a different way of reading the male superiority in the Bible, and criticizes educational practices that disadvantage women and girls.