Multiple Choice
How did Mary Astell's A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694) challenge the subservient roles traditionally ascribed to women?
A) It advocated the founding of a private women's college to remedy women's lack of education.
B) It called for sweeping reforms of English divorce and inheritance laws.
C) It argued for the establishment of writers' colonies where women could work in peace, free from the constraints of men and family.
D) It called for the widespread adoption of contraception and other family planning measures as a way of empowering women.
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