A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Published on 12. November 2019
320 pages
978-1-78873-764-7 (ISBN)
Description
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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English
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London
United Kingdom
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Reflowable
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978-1-78873-764-7 (9781788737647)
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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.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction by Sheila Rowbotham
- Note on the Text
- Dedication
- 1. The rights and involved duties of mankind considered
- 2. The prevailing opinion of a sexual character discussed
- 3. The same subject continued
- 4. Observations on the state of degradation to which woman is reduced by various causes
- 5. Animadversions on some of the writers who have rendered women objects of pity, bordering on contempt
- 6. The effect which an early association of ideas has upon the character
- 7. Modesty. Comprehensively considered, and not as a sexual virtue
- 8. Morality undermined by sexual notions of the importance of a good reputation
- 9. Of the pernicious effects which arise from the unnatural distinctions established in society
- 10. Parental affection
- 11. Duty to parents
- 12. On national education
- 13. Some instances of the folly which the ignorance of women generates
- with concluding reflections on the moral improvement that a revolution in female manners might naturally be expected to produce
- Notes
