A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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- Hardcover
512 pages
- Release Date
28 April 2020
Summary
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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 emanci…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241382622 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241382629 |
| Author: | Mary Wollstonecraft, Miriam Brody |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 28 April 2020 |
| Weight: | 426g |
| Dimensions: | 174mm x 114mm x 32mm |
| Series: | Penguin Pocket Hardbacks |
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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