A Vindication of Rights of Woman

By Mary Wollstonecraft, Graphyco Editions, Jan Cramer

Subjects: Literary criticism, Sociology, English fiction & prose literature - 18th century - literary criticism, Women's rights--great britain, Woman, Women, European, Femmes, Conditions sociales, Vindication of the rights of woman (Wollstonecraft, Mary), Droits, Gleichberechtigung, Hq1596 .w6 1992, Women--history--19th century, Éducation des femmes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Feminism - history, Aufsatzsammlung, Geschichte, Social and moral questions, Women--history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights, Early works to 1800, Rights of women, Feminism, Education, Women--education--great britain, 305.4/0941, Women authors - british - literary criticism, Women, education, great britain, Women & education, Social conditions, Political rights, Women's rights, History, Women, history, modern period, 1600-, Hq1596 .w6 1996, Great Britain, Women in philosophy, Women's right, Women--education

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.