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Full Idea
Women in general …have no civil personality.
Gist of Idea
Women have no role in politics
Source
Immanuel Kant (Metaphysics of Morals I: Doctrine of Right [1797], §46)
Book Ref
Kant,Immanuel: 'Political Writings', ed/tr. Reiss,Hans [CUP 1996], p.139
A Reaction
In case you were wondering. This is five years after Mary Wollstonecraft's book.