A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Published on 25. May 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-84467-446-6 (ISBN)
Description
"It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their charms and weakness."-Mary Wollstonecraft
Composed in 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft's seminal feminist tract A Vindication of the Rights of Woman broke new ground in its demand for women's education. A Vindication remains one of history's most important and elegant broadsides against sexual oppression. In her introduction, renowned socialist feminist Sheila Rowbotham casts Wollstonecraft's life and work in a new light.
Composed in 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft's seminal feminist tract A Vindication of the Rights of Woman broke new ground in its demand for women's education. A Vindication remains one of history's most important and elegant broadsides against sexual oppression. In her introduction, renowned socialist feminist Sheila Rowbotham casts Wollstonecraft's life and work in a new light.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84467-446-6 (9781844674466)
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Sheila Rowbotham, who helped start the women's liberation movement in Britain, is known internationally as a historian of feminism and radical social movements. She is the author of the groundbreaking books Women, Resistance and Revolution; Woman's Consciousness, Man's World; and Hidden from History. Her later works include Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties and Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century.
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) first achieved fame for her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she extended the radical idea of the "rights of man" to women and laid the groundwork for modern feminism.
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) first achieved fame for her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she extended the radical idea of the "rights of man" to women and laid the groundwork for modern feminism.