Judith Sargent Murray and Equality of Virtue
by Kirstin Anderson BirkhaugUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison In 1790, two years before Mary Wollstonecraft published her Vindication of the Rights of Woman, an American woman with the pen name “Constantia” released her own treatise on the equality of the sexes. “Constantia,” or, rather, Judith Sargent Murray, set out to prove the profound injustice of sexual inequality …