Introduction. The basic Maasai political and social structure is their rigid system of age-sets (or age grades; strictly-speaking, an age-grade is a stage within the age-set).
After Wollstonecraft died in 1797, her husband William Godwin published his Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798). He revealed much about her private life that had previously not been known to the public: her illegitimate child, her love affairs, and her attempts at suicide.
The state, the public life, enhances and serves both individuals and the family. Men have duties in the family, too, and women have duties to the state. Mary Wollstonecraft also argues for the right of woman to be educated, because she is primarily responsible for the education of the young.