It focuses on the societal rather than the individual "wrongs of woman" and criticizes what Wollstonecraft viewed as the patriarchal institution of marriage in eighteenth-century Britain and the legal system that protected it.
Céntrase nos «agravios sufridos pola muller» a nivel social máis ca individual, e critica o que Wollstonecraft consideraba como a institución patriarcal do matrimonio na Gran Bretaña do século XVIII e ao sistema legal que a protexía.