A vindication of the rights of women

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This page contains details about the book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft published in 1792. This book is the 413th greatest book of all time as determined by thegreatestbooks.org.

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'She is alive and active - we hear her voice and trace her influence even now' Virginia Woolf 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…

This September, the OUP Philosophy team honors Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) as their Philosopher of the Month. Wollstonecraft was a novelist, a moral

A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

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Mary Wollstonecraft believed that experience shaped thought and development and her own early life shaped her ideas about women's and human rights.