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A Vindication of Rights of Woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft
First Published
2009
Subjects
Women's rights
Women, education, great britain
Feminism
Women
Education
History
Social conditions
Women's right
Early works to 1800
Social and moral questions
Great Britain
Droits
Femmes
Political rights
Vindication of the rights of woman (Wollstonecraft, Mary)
Aufsatzsammlung
Geschichte
Gleichberechtigung
Éducation des femmes
Women, history, modern period, 1600-
Conditions sociales
Sociology
PHILOSOPHY / Political
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Woman
Rights of women
Literary criticism
European
Women in philosophy
Women & education
Women authors - british - literary criticism
English fiction & prose literature - 18th century - literary criticism
Feminism - history
Women's rights--great britain
Women--education
Women--education--great britain
Women--history
Women--history--19th century
Hq1596 .w6 1996
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Hq1596 .w6 1992
Description
From Goodreads: 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 partner. Mary Wollstonecraft's work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrage - Walpole called her 'a hyena in petticoats' - yet it established her as the mother of modern feminism.