Women in general are the victims of male-dominated society, but theindividual woman--in this case, Maria--who is imprisoned in a terriblemarriage is, to Wollstonecraft, the most miserable of victims: For my part, I cannot suppose any situation more distressing, than for a woman of sensibility, with an improving mind, to be bound to such a man as I have described for life; obliged to renounce all t