Posthumous Works of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Volume 3 (J. Johnson, 1798), p. 48. See also Tom Furniss, 'Mary Wollstonecraft's French Revolution', in Claudia L. Johnson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Mary ...
The winds of change sweep through her pages." This classic work of early feminism remains as relevant and passionate today as it was for Wollstonecraft's contemporaries. This edition includes new explanatory notes.
Ideal for coursework and classroom study, this comprehensive edition of Wollstonecraft’s heartfelt feminist argument includes illuminating essays by leading scholars that highlight the author’s significant contributions to modern ...
No feminism or feminist philosophy without “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”. Wollstonecraft argues not only that women ought to have the education of a woman should fit her...
This edition features a shrewd, annotated abridgment of Mary Wollstonecrafts A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) accompanied by an array of texts that help situate the Vindication in its political, historical, and intellectual ...
A manifesto for women's rights stresses the need for the education of women, defines the female character, and applies the egalitarian principles of the era to women.
227–32; See also Thomas Paine, Peter Linebaugh Presents Thomas Paine: The Rights of Man and Common Sense (Verso, 2009). Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in Todd (ed.), Mary Wollstonecraft Political Writings, p.
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Written during a time of great political turmoil, social anxiety, and against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft's argument continues to challenge and inspire. This revised and expanded Third...
Often considered to be the earliest widely-circulated work of feminism, the book is a powerful example of what can be achieved by creative thinkers – people who refuse to be bound by the standard ways of thinking, or to see things through ...
Mary Wollstoncraft's passionate declaration of female independence shattered the stereotype of docile, decorative womanhood, anticipated a new era of equality and established her as the founder of modern feminism.
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
One of the earliest works of feminist philosophy, ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ argues that women should receive a rational education.
In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the 18th century who did not believe women should have an education.