A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
$25.58
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
19 November 2004
Summary
Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of emancipation—an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and for women to become defined by their profession, not their partn…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141441252 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141441259 |
| Author: | Mary Wollstonecraft, Miriam Brody |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 19 November 2004 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Critics Review
“We hear [Mary Wollstonecraft’s] voice and trace her influence even now among the living.”
“We hear [Mary Wollstonecraft’s] voice and trace her influence even now among the living.”
About The Author
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) was a writer and founding feminist philosopher. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is her most famous work, but she also wrote novels, treatises and a history of the French Revolution, many of whose events she witnessed first-hand in Paris. She died eleven days after giving birth to her daughter, Mary Shelley.
Miriam Brody is a professor in the Writing Program at Ithaca College, New York.
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